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More retrospeclive 
ravings as we 
continue our potted 
hietofy of the Cfi4. 



hftaytieni in Monsteiland, 
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Itore^i yoiv chance to do more than play it.. 



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It's aciion with a side salad ol 
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Superlative puzzle-orientated 
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EASY LIVES 1 

The world's best-looking hack proi|^ 
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m C-FORCE N«.1 2 ■ NOVEMBit 1993 



ell, it's been a strange 
month. II began on a low 
note with the departure 
ol Chris Hayward to SNES 
FORCE, and sank lower towards 
the end ot our schedule when 
Miles decided ii'd be a great 
idea to crash his car into a 
stationary vehicle. Obviously, 
that doesn't really affect you 
people out there in the real 
world, but it could have — the 
entire COMMODORE FORCE 
editorial team (all two ot us) in a 
car crash... who'd write 
everything? 

Anyway, gripe aside, this 
month's possibly our most 
feature packed to dale and... 
yes, we've even got a few 
reviews. Okay, so they're only 

'little. known' titles such as 
Mayhem in Monsterland, 
iemmings and dfien 3, but I 
suppose wfe''l get by. Back to 
the Feature's. ..um, back, and w 
hope you appreciate the 
Lemmings poster — it only you 
knew the rush it was In arranse 
it... 

Also, thanks to all those that 
took the time to fill in and 
return Issue Ten's survey — I' 
response has been almost 
overwhelming! As well as 
acting upon points raised, we'll 
also be including a Readers' 
Ail-Time Top 100 in neit — 

month's COMMODORE FORCED 
It would appear a few of our 
choices were a little 
contraversial — but I suppose 
It's a matter of personal 
preferances. Rest assured, 
though, this top 100 will be as 
near to a perfect indication of 
the most popular CG4 games 
ewer as you'll get. 

Drive Carefully...! 



James Price Editor 

■ C-FORCI Na.13 ■ NOVIMBER 199 



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complemoni {and promole} fheir exisiting PD 
sefvices. Their SoUware Direclor Dean Kslly is 
currenlly urging C64 owriers 10 submit 
contribuliors such as ideas, small aaverls and Ihe 
kkeor simply submilTheir address solhey canbe 
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Dean, Ifie nBWE-leller will also Oislnbuled inrnugn 
other Public Domain suppliers and 'selected 

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Ever wanred to program top- 
qaulhty C6J games? Vou 
have? Obviously, you're 
helped immonsefy by out lechhical 
pages, bul M.REZA (sirange 
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In-depih answer lor all you lee hie 
types ouMhere Called Guide to 
6510 AasemDJer'. il isjustftiat — a 
guide Un'orlunalely. Brian Strain 
wasn^l availible to review it Ihis 
mon(h, bul rest assured he'll gel 
his grubby mitis on [| for Issue 
d13 From a relallvely ungual^lied 
point of view, the rest 0l us 
thougni il looked pretty impressive 
— Il comes complete with a 'tree' 
tape includirg a PO mcmrior and 
tape turbo uliJity It also has pages 
and pages oi Tneaningful numbers 
Unfortunaiefy, it's not going lo rind 
tie way onTo shop shelves, so seivl 
orders 10. Vifay Gagan {C&4 
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Sireel, Greet, Birmingham Bl I 
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Qriped opioiori on its good and bad 
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IL s noi irnporlant, we suppose, but there's just a 
small snippet of inlormalcn we discovered Ihis 
momjng. Vou see, as we're based m the same 
building as SNES FORCE, MEGA MACHINES and 
SEGA MASTER FORCE, we get lo see a lol of 
games It |us1 so happens thai this mommg (al the 
lirre ol wnling) Sonic CD anived in lor, not 



surprisingly, tfie Mega CO Flasby graphics and many 
layers ol parallax aside, il doesn't play loo badly — 
there's even an Interesting time-travel sidelir>e, adding 
a strategic element and complemenhng the frenetic 
gemeptay Oh.andthe soundsexceHenlloo — 
although it Lacks the onginal Sontc 'anthem' muse, it's 
well produced and eKecuted, Vup, al in all. if s not a 
bad littte platform gaiTie . 

So you're wondenng why we're wrrimg lti<s, ihen? 
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So now did Miles respond? 
I can I lake il any more.' he 
said 'I'm so upset I think I'll 
crash my beloved cav 
AdmBIedly. il's nol Ihe wisest move I'll have 
ever made, Bui, hey — rl could be fun ' Veati. 
like greal Miles Whal's yom neii inck'' Atom 
bomb luggling'^ 

PAVI OAME: Lemmings 



Mattiines" edilonal (earn has con! pit ltd n .ilready 
Obviously, fw hasn't seen every scrson thie game has 
lo otter. buT nortelheless. he's ploughed Ihrougli sijcty 
pouna'5 worth ot game ir Ihe very morning il amved. 
MayhsfifG been in Ihe oHice lor a few days now. ar>d 
we're still bateiy managing lo reach Pipelamj. Makes 
you ttirtK. Ooe&n't a 




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o( magic dust as possibia then enter the eml 
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belore re-amerging inio Ihe now-happy land. 
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'liglilning' power-up on Ihe Happy slage. 
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4. AMMO 

Number o) rounds remaining m 
ine selected chanicter's 
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S. ROOM 

The nurnber of 
the room in which 
disracler -s 
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POINT! 

The potonlial rawarfl 
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Jolly 

The game of the 
mil movie takes 
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as a team ot marines 
land in ths ali6n-ihlested 
remains ol an Earth 
colony, way cH in Oeep 
space Vou'ra in 
command anrl must 
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around the base from 
the relative satety of the 
Mobile Tactical Operation? 8a y 
(MTOB} in the personnel earner 
that brought you here. You have 
SIX people at your dIspOEal: 
Ripley, Gorman, Hicks. Bishop. 
Vasquez and 8urt4e. To sol'" " -i 
charade' press Ifte hey of " ■ 
initial e.g R' lor Ripley eicupi 
tpr Bishop wtu's selected with 



The mam area of the screen repreaeiitb d video 
image from a shouWer-mountad camera ol the 
selected cha^cter. This means you see exaclly 
what each chaTacter sees. A cross-hair gimsight is 
moved by the joystick. You r^n ctestroy venous 
Iermlr>al5 as well as blasting through locked doofs 
To enter a boor, position the sight over ii and press 
space 

To direct a characler to move independently 
through up to nine rooms, press a number between 
one and nine then a direction IN, S, E or W) than 
select someor^e else. 

Pause the action by pressing P' ar>d to restart 
tap P' twice W aborts ttie game. 



6. BIO- 
MONITOR 
BAR 

Gri;r^n n^aansthe 
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yellow he's (or 
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again, she'sl 
impregnated — 
dead meal. The stamina bar shows 
how much energy's remaining 
Movement requires energy sO" rest 
characters inlBnnittently or they 
become exhausted and unable to 
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Many years aqo Ihere lived a mrghty 
race ol warlords hnown as the 
Zoidanans From rheir home pfanel oT 
Zoidetar they conguored the galaxy f'V means 
of mighty frghtmg machtnes known as Zolds. 
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became even more ferocious. 

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ol Zoids aboard targe transporters in space 
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barren satellite, with conditions to which Zoids 
were lolally unsuiied To survive, Ihe marooned 
Zoids were lorced to unite and mutate, 
becoming Red Zoids. Under Ihe leadership ot 
the most powerful Red Zoid, Redhorn The 
Terrible, the Red Zoids relurnsil to conquer 
Zoldstar. 

To combat this mighty new threal, the Warring 
'Blue Zoids' lOined lorces and constructed 
Zoidzllla to be their leader. Caught by surprise 
however, the Blue Zoids were soon overrun 

A Blue Zoid patrol was., um. patrolling one 
day when they discovered a strange pod. it's 
occupant still alive A humanoid from the distant 
planet ol Earth, he proved to be a tough lighler 
and good stralegist. Eventually a plan was 
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Without his leadership the reds would i^rurnbte. 

Unfortunately during Ihe descenl. Earthman's 
ship was destroyed He managed to escape but 
Zoidiilia was blown to pieces. These were 
quickly coltected by Red Zoids and hidden in 
heavily delended city domes, f^ow you, as 
Earthman. must locate the eight pieces ol 
Zoidiilla and rebuild him before taking on 
Redhorn, 






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the while arrow with loyalidi lefl^ngbt and fire to 

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Al' aclual game actions are controlled tiy 
WyslKh. with aOdilional Mey tuncUons as 
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The year 1 989 was a big 
year for C64 software, 
and no mistake. Tlie 
quality of most releases 
was generally very high, 
a few real classics made 
their way onto the 
shelves, and the word 
'licensed' meant mere to 
the software industry than 
it ever had before. Come 
to thinit of it, a mystery 
prixe is available to the 
first person who can tell 
us how many times I've 
had to use the words 
'licensed', 'coin-op' or 
__ 'conversion' 
. throvghowl 
this feature. 
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flame An update ol ttie classic AslBroids (hence 
the name), it oHered livo-player action and 
cdlectables, S9 Aell aB the traditional rock-pulping, 
sctaen-spinnlng gan>epl^y- But could il be 
described as 3 good-value bjy a1 lull price? Most 
arcade r'.,is'fiiri'is f.ar^ f'-jmiil ,t It^w coiralrom 




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flEpite predJCtions Ihel Ihe C64 was on iTs 
1 *ayoui. l9B9BawbDOrning irade m both 

licensed and ortginal aofiware ConverBions 
— previoualv a very hii-and-miss aHair — were 
iric:xea&ng m boUi qjantity and qi.tQliiv 
ImnagBworkft' C64 version of Ihe moderate ly 
popputar BlasiBtoids coin-op was a more-^han- 
dddequaja rendition, bill, like so many of its kind, 
lacthed Ihe oomph' you expect from a computer 



Blasteroids Imageworks 

iriiides|iensible -ib a iwo'pliiyei game, scxnswhat lacking otbeiwise 

Dvnamic Duo Firebird 

PPe'tiaps It tvas a joke and «B didnl gel if 

Mew Zealand Story Ocean 

A^ marvelousconve'Slon Vjmmy 

Rainbow Islands Ocean 

A A classic Possibly ItiH best conversion ever. 

IRed Heat Ocean 

NNoi one ot Ocean's finer releases- 

iAItered Beast Activisien 

OOk ?v I I ini.h-'t.ifjn of a modiocro Gi?in-op 



released it is beyond us, bul mosi 
surprisingly of all is ihat IE was released 
In a yeai- that saw Ocean Dnng us Ihe 
classic Hainbon IslenOs and New 
Zeaiant) Slory, amorrg others. 

Winning Streak 

As far as C64 software's concerned. 
1989 was Ocean's besi -ever yea'- ™"i 
only a few 'hiccups" — Rgmbo3and 
Rea Heal. RamOo 3 was a mixlure ol gamesiyles. 
including a Gau^/fe^slylB runaround and an 
OperaHon Woll-iype shoot-'em-ue section The 
plan-view areas were overly redious. aiKlIhe 
absence al aify level codes meant Ifiar getting lo 
the mildly-aililiclive blasting level Mas hanl going 
Alt in all, ilwasa very average outing — unliKe the 
aiaOolical Red Heat A te-m wilb Ihe 

Schwarzenegger film ot th>e 
same name, it owed 




* Blasteroids — Fun but ultimately 
limited updsia ol an age-old formula. 

individuals' pockels, but there aren'l many thai 
entice nine pounds' worth giBSteioids received a 
lauourable 83"^ raling Irom ZZAP! subsequent lo 
IIS release, and narrowly squeezed into lasl 
monlli's Top 100 due lo its (admittedly excellent) 
Iwo-player opton. I'd have rated It a lot lower — lis 
Ideal budget lodder, bul there's really nol thai 
much to 11. Nol tor £8 99, anyway. 

From the well-meani lo the ndiculous. Firebird's 
D^rianiic Duo stank. Badly Putting you In control ot 
a bird arrd a dwfld in two playing areas (with the 
screen spirt honzonlally lo maKe Ibese), this early 
aitempl al using the lectinique so successhjl m. 
say, Lotus, was an unmitigated disaster Lacking 
any real gameplay, it was condemned by 
horrilied reviewers and, I trusl. consumers 
alike. Wby on earth Rrebird actually 




83% 


70% 


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8% 


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morBthar a passing nod to Kung Fu MaslBf, Ihe 
L artcieii beal-'em-up '1b mam onginal poini was 
\lhal I- accommodale (he large si^e of its spnlea, 
l\fiS biilom half ol Iheir bodies were rrilssing. The 
fresuling wida-screen filrn-reel-typa display was. 



UWW-. • * tWW • * ^VJ 
..if,, - -■•" 



monin as Islandswas llie aUsolulely superb bjl- 
not-QUite-as-gond-as-ffl licence. Wew ZealanO 
Siory II loo vias sichemngly cule, and witfi a 
plethora ol fIjHy kiwis to Eoot 

On a mora violent note, Ocsan look the 
^upposBdly unconvSTlflble OpBratton Woft... and 

converted it. 



T 



'em-ups, 

Ranegade 3 — 

The Final Oiapter 

(to givs M lis full title) 

trad ta go one tutttter by 

adding jumping acroEs spike 

pits and the like. Bad move Even 

worse was Ihe ridiculous array 
of anemiss — dinosaurs, 
cavemen, egyptlan mummies and 
knighls on hobby horses, among 
'hers To round it alt oft, the entire 
..;ine structure was supposedly 
lUOMied Dy Ihe addition of a laughable 
time-travel plot, which, on accounl of Us i 
mosi dire naluie, i won't relate here. 
Suffice to say, these elemanls did few 
favours lo Ihe actual game, li played well 
enough, but with The lack of any *ea! 
action and the orw-move-kiMs-all 
syndrome present and accounted for, n 
just wasn't fuli-pnce material. 



• A lira movis li«-ln, llad Hsat caught 
Ih* Kim's mplrit unwittlnsly wait. 

Ihouji graphically compelenL. devoid of any 
gam^lay Move. duck. pur>ch... and embrace 
the tedium, baby If I remomOer rightly, il was 
programmed by Special F)( — the otherarisa 
OKcelenl developmeni house respoi^sible lor 
classes such as Midnight HesislancB. Otiwell 
— I sjppose everyone has their bad days . 

On an altogether more positive note, 
Ra'nbow Islai^ds fumed out to be the mosI 
ulterlv, utterly twilllanl coin-op conversior^ 
ever. Converted by Ifie multi-talenled 

Craftgotd team, ii was proof indeed that Ihe 
Ci4 could, to a certain eitenf. compete with 
the Amiga — its rendition was almost as gofKl 
as Its 16-bii counlerparl. Even the ctiirpy- 
cheerful 50uped-up versir>n of 'Somewhere 
Over The Rainbow' thai accompanied the 
■action was eicefleni Ami/ing inihe same 



II 



The CSi version is almost as 
good as it could have been, lacking only Itie 
caOinel-mounted guns that made IhB original such 
a hit. Renegade 3 was also released, bringing the 
flenegarfc senes lo an end in a functiorral manner. 
Whereas its predecessors dad been all-out beal- 



Hey hey hey, it's the ratings snd sluff Vou ifiusi 
know how If Wkjrks by now. but just in case, 
here goes Game Name. Publishor Original 
mark received. COtirtfJODOBE l=ORCE rating 
now availability The availabilily maiivis 
marked oui ol ten. with len meaning the game s 

■ easily lound and bought, and one sigralying 
you've goi next to no chance of lirrding if. pal 
Pr have you"* This availability business has 
Iwen a com rove rsiai one of late, as it turns oui 
Vial I'm almosi always wrong in my prefliciiona 
Common sense dictates ihat, rll'm not 
Jxepared (or able) to research each mark 
ftioroughiy, perhaps ild be wiser toomil ii from 
Ihe lisl Well, indeed it would, bui wiaf would 
you have la moan about if I were to — apart 

"fc^ irom consoles, lack of software, 
consoles, lack of 



Myth System 3 

Original, absortung and utterly gorgeous to look at 

Cabal Ocean 

Not grountl-breakirg. but very playable nonetheless 

Stunt Car Racer Microstyle 

Brilliarl use of veclor graphics, even beller gameplav 

Batman: The Movie Ocean 

E»ceH<:riilie-in w<1h novel twrsis 

Renegade 3 Ocean 

Over.iraled ai me lime — nol a patch on lis predecessors. 

Silkworm The Sales Curve 

Grnat iuri — ever h+?ltO' wilb two players 



94% 
89% 
94% 
96% 
90% 
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94% 


4/10 


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Like Opetalion lVo« viewed anfl played Irom a 
aKerBM perspBclivB, CaOa'Hasnl Ihe mosl 
Sjc*;bssIuI arcade machine ever, it did make tor 
t^neuc C64 shooi-'em-up aclior, IhOLigh, as 
players blasiefl llieir way Hirouah many single bul 
very Oestmclitila screens li was pertiaps this 
sDlliIy 10 wipe out the sceoeiy as well as your 
a&Eailaiiia thai was CabBfi true charm A multlloai] 

did raihe; 

puE a 




• CbIibI faatund mlndlBaa UsBtlnB ol tha 
nishaat order. Chunky, macho and tun. 

dainpenej" on proceedings, bul the disk version, 
lacking ihai problem, was veiy good 

Rounding oH Ocean's 1989 eHnns were the film 
tie-ins The UnloucnaUss and Balman. The Movie. 
The UnroocdaWes was a late licentee, the release 
oF the game didn'lcalch the movies critical (il noL 
necessarily Boi-ntlice) success Nonetheless, its 
strength of design and playability were second to 
rione — Ocwan's previous multi-section licences 
paled in comparison Witli OpeiaBon fcVo«-lype (bul 
Belter) sections, platlonn levels and much more, it 
was a Oelighl to play as well as behold — it even 
IDliowed Ilia lilm's plot to a certain eitent Mot quite 
as good but equally well received was Batman; 



The Movie — again, a multi-section licence lis 
best levels were platlorm -based, where Balman 
could be moved around usmg a unique 'rope' utility 
BIlachaB to his belt Swinging from floor lo floor 
was Qreal lun, no! to manion 4vell executed I've 
always tall II didn'l flow as well as its less colourful 
Spectrum counterpart, but I'd tjolter not go on 
about that, should I 

And of the rest... 

As I've already mentioned, arcade 
conversions are usually substandard for one 
ol three reasons — the convorskjn is beyond 
the machine's capabilities, such as HarO 
Dnvin'. (he coding's naff like Cisco Heal, or the 
original game wasn't up to much — Anered Bessi 
being a classic enampla ot this A honiontally- 
scTolling tjea|.'em-up wi1h very little beat, its mam 
novelties were tis two-player option and 'characler 
changing' By colleding Three power-ups, the sprite 
would become a monster 0' some dascnplion, wlltl 
each level prcviOing a ditfereni one. Problem was, 
the tedium soon set in — with only a tew moves 
ind one level ol play, each level was a Utile too 
similar lo the lasl. Oh, 11 had a multiload loo, 
1 may seem like all ol 1 9B9's memorable 
moments were conversions, but a few original 
gems did appear; SyBlem Ss Mylh was something 
else With graphics that wouldni look too out of 
place on a 16.011 machine, it took the basic 
platform game ideal and did wonders with il 
Fighiing demons, solvirig puzjles , il had it alt. II 
also lacked the bugs Ihal haunted lis Amiga 
counterpart 

yyith, I'm sure, countless numbers of God;iila 
movies in mind, Gl^mlin released The Munchsr^ 
a graphically. sound smash- 'em-up where the 
player controlled a large Godzilla-lype monster 
Playing like a mu(tlditectionally-sc rolling Rampage, 
The Munchec combined big, bold graphics with 
large scale destruction "Rie result' A highly 



playable — if a Irllle 
awkward — game, 
sponsored By Chewitis, 




• With perhaps th« biggest sprits in C64 
history, Munchsr was truly monatsrous. 



The Untouchables 

^i]|n?rl) Mm, superb game, 

Shinobi 

r.n.ii conversion ol \hG uriinspirea-Quf-addtctivecOhnop 

PLiynblti but Hawed- 

Xybots 

A(li!„-H^Ter Horrible 

The Muncher 

ijFDal (irn bill irifunaling a1 limes. 

Manic Miner 



Ocean 

Virgin 

Domark 

Domark 

Gremlin 

Mastertronic 



CodemaslerB , 
early venture i 
into the lull- 
price arena with 
Rock Slai Ale My 
Hamster w&s 
amusing, losay the 
leasl A 



^^ bandfc 




\ 



manaQemenl game 
that required you to lake your 
1 (or solo aitiBi) to the lew ol the 
charts, il was worth a chuckle or two the 
firsi lime played, Bul thereafter it |usl 
wasn't worth Bothering with The concept was 
simple, Choose your characters, arrange them a 
few gigs, record a single, record an album Once 
heard a few times, the lunes that accompanied this 
aclion' soon began to grate. Why Codemastars 
released it on their premier range lalMl 
(Codemaslers Gold, no less I is beyond me, 
sulfice lo say, it wasn't long belore it was re. 
released a; C3,99, 

MBBlertronic, no longer the Budget giants they 
had been, re-released Manic Miner, A curious 
move, It scored highly with reviewers (95%, ZZAP! 
64) If not Buyers — while it will always be 
considered a dassic by those caught By the 
computer bug in the early eigtities, I doubt it 
enjoyed an astounding retail success Did you 
know that it's actually a rlp.otl of an old Atan game. 
Miner 2029er? Well It IE, 

From the basic lo the technk:ally superb, 
MIcrostylo's Stunl Car Racer was a marvellous 
Bompla of programming expertise. Most race 



96% 

86% 
90% 
27% 
71% 

95% 



94% 
80% 
76% 
17% 
70% 
46% 



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games lend ro provide Itie 
prayer wrih boring, ihrtli-free 
tracks: Stun! Car Racef^ 
many courses owed more to 
toller coasters Ihari Formula 
One, and lo greal effacl. 
lis wireframe groptiica 
I were both sm<>o1h and 
\ taei — suppofiedly, 
\vecror graphics a ren' I 
I he CB4's slrong sui), 
tjut f^acei proved Ihay 
could be dona, ard 
dDTte weir 
'Mlcroslyle's pareni 
company, Microprose 
(remember Ihem?) 3i5o 
delivered a classic piece ol 
C64 sofEwam in Wie form of 
Micropfose Soccer— heard 
oJ n? For Ihose who are 
inrereeted. we should be 
hotdirg ihe challar^e nexl 
ssue. 
DomHrlt's markellog 



# The evergroen Microprose soccer 
included a nova] indoor gamo as a bonus. 

dealwHfi Tengen bn boih high and low poini6 
during Ihe year Their conversion of Iha classic 
JfyiwJs cotn-op leH a lot lobe desirad — a poor 
quaJty Spectrum pol, il lacked speed, colour and 
playabiliiy. The actual gemeplay was so simple, It 
was unique run around a maze searching for the 
evlf, blasting various nasties and. if you so w^ed, 
have a Inend join in for simultaneous sp^iE-Bcreen 
actiCfi. However, everything was displayed in semi 
ficsi-oersoi 3D. The graphics were (or so I'm told) 
spnts- as apposed to wtreframe-based (thus 
limiting trie smoothness of movement), but the 
tkaac Jdoa — arid certainly Ihe original coin-ops 



execution of i( — were sound Its |usl a shame a 
little more lime waan'l spent on making the 




* Poor progrsmiTting doomed Xybote to 
reftido in tba Svhat might have been' file. 

conversion worlhwhjie , , 

Following XyiTwJsbut managing lo retain agree! 
deaf ol Its subject matter's chami was APB This 
mukid»r^lionBlly-sc rolling pFan-view car chase 
game was a huge success in (he arcades, where 
its compulsive gamepJay and humorous touches 
had endeared il lo arcade goers. The conver&on 
was \&r irom perlect — the occasjonal bug reared 
its ugly head and [he graphics were a imie basic ~ 
but It was such an enjoyable concepi thai such 
drawbacks were easily ignored it also lacked the 
SjMdrum version s tendency lo crash every iwo 
games — a beneht and a half, if you ask me. 

One ol Domark's ofher conversions v^es Return 
ol the Jed' — a convepsion of the coin-op ol the 
dim. The Ihhrd {and so far last) in the Star Wars 
trilogy, ihe film lacked the oomph of its 
predecessors; a problem suffered equally by its 
arcade counterpart. Whereas Sfar Wars and The 
Empire Strikes Back had been wirelrame-based 
shooi-'em-ups, Jt?c*was a ZaMon-inspired 
djagonally- scrolling blaster. This iJtlle-used 
perspective has rarely besn utilised m games ol 
any value or consequenc:e — even the olherwlse- 
sKcerisnE Costa Panyi failed To do wonders with it in 
his HtgtiwaylAlieti Encouifler games. Asyoii'd 
enpeci. the conversion was flawed from the sian — 
if ihere's rKjr much in ihe ariginalr how can a home 
computer version ever be anylhing more than 
mediocre? Oh, one more thing, fact fans. Did you 
know thai David Lynch — of Blue VelveJ and Twn 
Peaks fame — was onginally asked to direct ihe 
fle/umo//^ Jedlf film, an offer he refused? Just 
imagine whal Jt would have been like if he'd said 
yes,.. 

From Melbourne House came the sorry 
conversion of Ihe eicellenl Doable Dragon arcade 
machine The onginal is, in my opFnion, one of the 
tjest c^in-ops ever released, its simple but brutal 



ilEKIIIRiir^ 



garr>eplav and great two-player option wonh almost 
every ten pee put inio its coin-slot Unfortunately, 
the C64 version left a lot lo be desired, awful 
graphics, tenlbie collision detection you name a 
flaw. It s almost assured Itiat 64 Dragon had it, I 
suppose you could take solace from Ihe fact that 
versions oo other computer lormais were just as 
dodgy, but not much. I'm Just glad I didn't buy it 
myself Speak^g of which, Bftp — i^k/BO Classics 
was a Silverbird release that crossed \fte fine line 




9 Double Dragon was solid beat^'em-up 
action all the way, unlike the conversion. 

from novel to ridrulous, and suflered accordingly 
Remember Ihe eariy consoles, with Ihe Pon^- 
orientated arcade games? Can you recall how 
imaginations were called upon lo Ihink of four thin 
rectangles and a bouncing tiall as a toolbaij malch 
or tennis Eoumam ant? Well 8/rp took those early .. 
I can't call them classics — I mean, they were a bit 
on the due side, even back then 'novelliBG', and 
toiaily failed to update them in any real way. It 
simpiy duplicated Ihem The end result, far from 
astounding or revolutionary, was another budget 
game Ihat nobody really bought 




# Blip Video Claeeics — A pointlaee 
batch of OHtinct arcade dinosaun. 



Pacmania Grandslam 

Overpriced bui playable 

Operation Wolf Ocean 

Thunderblade US Gold 

Okay conversion of impossible- 1 [j-r:nrn/eri coin-op 

Exploding Fist + Firebird 

Vastly inleuorto IK+ 

Double Draaon Melbourne House 



Vastly inleuor to IK+ 



Double Dragon 

Dire 

Return of the Jedi 

Average conversion <-if an average- foin-op 



Domark 



88% 
91% 
69% 
68% 

15% 
61% 



56% 
79% 

65% 
60% 

6% 
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Following Arehe' Maclean's superlfllivE IK* (bul 
nol closely snough to maKe a real impiEssion) was 
the similsriy-namea EipWamg f'sl •. II, like me 
alofemenlioneO classic, adflod an eitra playet, a 
few mofe moves Than iis pj"edecessor Lo no greai 
attecl IK' LS itie Desl twai- em-op me C64 has 
ever seen, and J can conlidenlly say ihai it won'l 
evw l» suipaased EF-. was a sorry cash-In 
atlBmpi that utleriy tailed to impress me. Can I 
leally say any more ihan that? ProbaDly Bjt Ivs 
pretty mucb run out ol spacBlof 
tliii month . 



It lakes two... 

The Salm Curve's conversion o' the 
SiWr*or/T] coin-op was. sslonishingly, more 
piayahie ifisn ihe original. A horizonlaJly- 
scroljing shoot- 'em-op. It had a 
Siimuttaneous two-player oplion whore one 
)oystK*-w«WBr controlled an airborne 
helicopter, the other a grojnd-tasBfl leep 



Co-operalion tiehveen players was essential tor 
son/lval. each vehicle had weaknesses thai the 
other coiild compensale for. so there was a little 
more lo playing Silkworm than simply blasting 
away However, its single-player mode was no less 
enjoyable — chooEing between either the |eep or 
the tielicopter, the lack ol any assistance made 'or 
more challengina gameplay I played Siffiivorm in 
the arcades onoe. and wasn't overly impressed 
with il — Ihe C64 version seems far sjpenor. How 
many times do you hear Ifia/said? 

A new dimension 

Pac Man, eh'' One of ItiB lirsi arcade machines, it 

was revolutionary at the lime but these days. 

well, let's |jsl say masi people wouldn't wasle their 

money on it However, if a company were to lake 

the bare txines of Ihe game and change Ihe 

basic cosmeiics, would d make il any more 

playable'' tf they were IQ change Ihe 

perspective to isometric 3D, ir^rease the 

size of Ihe graphics and make the maze 

scroll, would that make rl a better game'' 

Well marginally, yes Grandalam f. 

cor>verslon of 

Pacmania 

duplicaled 

Its 





• Silkworm galnad hug. popularity 
tsefor. losing It* SEU crown to SWIV. 



Microprose Soccer Microprose 

A rn'jiit ei'ceUeni soccer game 

Rambe 3 Ocean 

Dodgy iie-in with the laugnaljle film. Awful. 

Blip — Video Classics Siiv 

Whatever were ihey rtiinking of 

Rock Star Ate 



Ocean 

Classics Silverbird 



subject mattBf weH, and was fairly playable. II 
Houid have inade bener budget rnatenal, but I 
suppose inal's asking for too much. . 




• Pacmania — a valiant 
aHampt to uptfata the cIomIc 
j m^ize game. 

Mission 
I impossible 

Thundertt'atJe was an impressive 
coin-op. MlJfJrg into-lhe-screen 
Migh) sections and vertlcally- 
scrolhrg sbool-'em-up levels, 
''n looked, sountted and played 
well It's not ha'd To understand 
I why people were so scepucal svhen 
I u S Gold announced they were 
I . jiiverijng il Trying lo lit 
I Megabytes or graphicai data into 
J 64k is Ihe sorl ol task thai wouid 
'gjve your average programmer 
mghlmarss — bul, fo be <air TO fiwm. 
US Gold and their developers gave 'a 
iheif besi shot. The result? A 
iTioderalely ptayable blast ruined on 
1.IDI-' Formal by the obviously huge 
jr'-iLr'iisol loading ThedisK version 
■sVli^ belief bul even Ihat was slow 



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totally thrilling 
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' sending availability 
queries to Lloyd, mark 
them 'James you prannel, 
you're quite wrong' and 
send them lo the usual 
address. Apart from that, 
it's goodbye for this 
monthx. 



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Mayhem in Monsterland? 
Never heard of It. Dees il 
have anything fo do with 
hedgehogs? Is it a film 
conversion? Jeez, you'll 
probably tell me next it's 
an ultra-slick platform 
game from the capable 
hand* Creatures 1 and 2 
creators. Apex! As if I, 
JAMES 'SUPER SPIN 
ATTACK' PRICE would 
believe that for a second- 
Hang on, thought. 

Platform games 
Love Ihem or hal8 
tfiem, Itiey're as 
much a pan of compuiei 
efiteriainment as. say, Ihe 
computers |of consoles) 
Ihemssluos They're so 
popular. 10 tacl. Ilial Ihe Iwo 
DiQgesI connpanes in the video 
enlenaioment lodustry use Lhem as 
slrong seHing poinis — game of Sonic or Mario 
anyone'? The effons ol various companies to 
hype Iheir latesl 




fplatloFmj gdriie as a fieagehog- or plombsr- 
bealer wojIO snggesi thai there's 3 little 
more to the gen^e Lhan simply jumping on 
assorted heads People ^ant to buy theS€ 
gamea. This makes them piofitatile Flight 
sims7 Nah Too complicaled What 
everyone needs is a simple plaHorm game to 
vegetate imlh. righf Apparently so The 
programmers keep on programming them, while 
the punteis keep paying Up jntil now, the only 
lEatly decent platform gameE I've bothered with 
have been Sontc (sad bul inie) and Titus' OKGeUenl 
The Blues Brolheis. Now there's MayTiem. 

Mayhem's a horizontally- scrolling platform 
game It has live mam lauels, made up ol two 
different states — happy and sad. Comnlete the 
Sad area, and you move onto the Happy 
section. Finish mat, and Mayhem pnigresses to 
Ihe nest 'World'. In Sad areas. Mayhem fias to 
collect an allocaled amount of magic dust, before 
making his way to trie exit The bags containing iL 
can be found subsequent to the 
despaiching of certain nasties 
n Happy sections. Mayhem 
has to collect X amount of 
stars to progress 10 ttie 
reit world To kill 
monsiers. Mayhem can 
either jump on itieir heads 
or, should he have found 
the lightning power- up, build up 
speed and charge Ihrough Ihem. All it rrol that 
simple, though — later levels introduce creatures 



Mayhem, 

■tar of the garn*^ 

ind all-round culasy 

hero. Mis charge 

attack IS somelhing 

•Ise — ' he moves at 

■uch an aaloundlng 

rata, you'll 

Ihinhyou'va 

90t an Amiga^ 



'me 

fa alar Ihaae 

•tars rotate, the 

more polnta 

they're worth. 

Some of them are 

reel Iricky to 

rMWfl, 

Uo. 



writh spiked Backs, heads and the like To 
kill these. Mayhem has to hit a sot! point — should 
he hit «)B spikes, either energy or a life is lost. 
Monsters i~rth shells also present a problem — 
although if^y're not latal, should Mayhem charge 
into them he's liounced backwards Again, soft 
points have to be attacked... 

Downward pull 

Mayhem also has to contend with forces such as 
gravity anrf inerta. Obviously, when he |umps he 
returns to ground preHy quickly, but Ihe 

bigger his run-up, the larger the leap 




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Sl^n^la^^y, Ihe longer he J"jns. tha 

laste he is. uniil he reaches lop 

Spe&3 — which, in Charge rr>Dde, is very 

very 'asi indeed. NaT surpnsingly. the qujcko' 

hetravels, the longer he shida dunng an emergency 

(of intannonaJ) sUjp Waler. pradicfabJy, slows (Mjr 

hero's rmjuemenl While srjbmergBQ. Mayhem is 

less nippv and reacts a\ a riKjre pedesmao pace, 

while waterfalls sirnply spaeO up his Oescenl aflat a 

lump 

Graphically. Mayhem in Monst&itsn^s superQ 
From the veritable rainbows of colour in the happy 



levels, lo Ihe oppressive 
Oarhness o( the sad, It's 
probatily the tiesl-looking 
C64 game ever. The only 
game I can really compare 
II lo in temis of ixismetics is 
Cieafiires2. LikBlhat 
previoi.[& Rowland 
produt:tioh, the 
presentation Is excellent. 
Before each \evel. an 
animated piece of scenery 
wilh countless layais ot 
psrsllsi adorns Ihe cenlte 
□f Ihe screen, wrih 
animated levi telling which 
level's about to tie 
played, and what 
stale It's in. ahh. 
what's the point I'm 

attojt five hundred words into this review, 

and I feel as if I've hardly scratched the 

surface of what Wayfiem has to offer. It's 

wall -presented, playable 10 eilfemes. great 

to took at anO listen lo — I really can't fault it. 




• The Crealii'»s boyt 

have done mo 

Impo^sjbte antf actually 
managed to surpass 

._ iheir previous games 

> witti Mayhem- From Ihe taps of its )etly mouniatns 

-'^' to tfie lips ot its cule little lues, tills Is a gamer's 

dieam. Mstvellously drawn sprliea. especially f^ayhem 

lilmseM, not about to perfectly smooth scrolling and llie 

dmiEully curves In a way tfial would malie Claudia ScheiflBf 

nO with envy. There's a delinlle hint ot Mario about it but 

Mario never was never this cool — come to think ot K. simple 

colleel-'Bm-up game play Iibb 'B'Bly hit the mark so precisely 

either This is THE platform game Ihe 64's Ijcen walling for, 

IhQugn Its hard to de5r;ribe In words how truly 

wonderlul It Is. The proof of Itie pudding Is In the « 

ealing, and once you've had a taste you'll be pigging 

oul lor weeks. Sonic who? 



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Rowland boys then? 
Having jusl put the 
finishing touches to tholr 
latest epic — Mayhem In 
Monslerland — they're 

I currently drinking 

I themselves silly in 

I celebration. Bearing in 
mind their exemplary 
track record, we 
decided it was time for 
an interview. After 
supplying ample 
amounts of coffee, we 
managed to obtain a few 
words of wisdom from 

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tot example, Some the Hedgehog — 1(5 huge 
team ol devHlopers are vifluolly unknown To ail bul 
tho^ who see Sonic's ending sequence. Loog- 
Term CW ownera will remember the days when 
coders 5uch as Andrew Braybrook and learns like 
The Oliver Twins appeared on magazine pages 
Thsse days, it s^ems as il programmers efe 
peHDple who wnle Ihings lor computers, while 
console cads, hey, ptjg em m. play em and 
C>sryla9e yer bleeding wallet, yes? Elevating 
programmers to rnmor cetebniy status apparently 
isn't ihe ftone ihmg these days. Ihe developing of 
powerlul brand riames is Wilh ihai. the silicon- 
based eniadammeni mdusiry becomes more 
nfLamstream and loses its previous naive charm, 
bul It's profitable, at least . 

Most C64 programmers have already departed 
Ihe Commodore scene 10 work vuilti assorted l6-bll 



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possibly, Ihs most 
the Rowland Brolheia. 
Jolir and SIBvB BowlaniJ are tesponsiDla lo( iwo ol 
(liB Diggesl and well-programmed C64 games eve' 
— namely Creatures and Creahiias 2 sa il you 




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UmphlrB rvrr !|*«m on an B.MI ■¥«**«*«. 

didn't know — and have |U51 put it^e Imistiing 
toocflos 10 Mayhem in iMonsreHanfl, their latesl 
platform epic. But why. rttisn 50 many are now 
worhing on the 16- and 32-bits, are ifiey still wilh 
tfie C64' And why did Ihay choose Ihe C&4 in the 
first place'' 

We first got a C64 as a preseni. afmut 10 years 
ago,' ejtplains John 'From iha lirst day we had it. 
we were dealing programs on it Granlefl. Ihey 
were very bad programs but you've gol to start 
somewhere. We leamt Basic, Ihan lifactiine Code 
and Itiought we coulb do betlor beHer games — If 
not, as good — as lf>fl ones being released al that 
Ufne,* 






That they did, and 
10 much cntical 
acclaim 'We've 
designed and 
programmed 
Cyberdyne Warnor, 
Relrogtade, 
Crealmss. Crealu'ss 
^and Mayhem in 
Mor}sre/lBr}d.' says 
John 'Before 
CyberOyne Warno'. 
we were involved in a 
game called Scofptus 
We didn't program it, 
but we designed and 
produced the 
grapt^ic& and sound 

lor II.' Whalever way you look at 11, it's an 
Impressive track record — many COMMODORE 
FORCE readers feel Ibe Creafures games 10 be 
Ihe f>esl C64 products ever BjI wlial inspired 
Ihem? 

'The mam njason lor programming a cute 
platform game was if>at we were sicM of 
programming senojs 'Bat-laser-deaih-scum' 
games — somolhing we'd done for the previous 
two years ' revenls John 'Also, at Ihat lime, Ihere 
wasn't ine abundance ol culesy ptaltormers as 
there is now The arcade games we were playing 
al the time also influenced Ihe design of Creatures 
— M' Wartfnsr nng any bells'' 

Gr»alur« Comforts 

aul whsl Hbeut the InfamouB, bloodfhirsty lonuFS 
screens'' Who came up with the idea foi Ihem'' 'As 
with most ol the ideas for our games, wc tioih dldf 
eiplains Sieve We gel a group ol us around a 
table with some lood and garganluan amounts ol 



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beer and simply 
bounce Ideas off each 
01 her — and beer 
can^, come ■□ l^rnk or 
<1' On a Aissr note. 
tie conlinues It s 
tiilways betier lo nave 
T 'eachon -^ or even 
nelfer, an 

PiuprouemerW — to an 
Idea before ri goGS 
into a game As John 
and Sieve are poieniiaily such a hard-drinKing bsO 
mffiience. what would CrgaTures 1 and 2 hero 
Clyds Radcjifle drink it he were real? 'He'ti live ori 
a sJ'icf diet of enlra strength bser and cider — as 
we seam Lo ilo — mil only when he wasn't driving, 



okay Mids^' enthussa John. 
Hmmm From the poientoily inebnated lo the 
tJffleky, we enquired as lo whether or not 
CreaniiBs had made ihe Rovulands rich, lo which 
John retoriBd. No — bur ii shouid have done! 
BasicaHy, ihey (Thalamus , we assufrie — Ed) sold 
a massive amounl o' uniis made a load ot cash, 
biii — due locircumBtances beyond our com rol — 
we only received a small fraction of it {sob!} ' A sorrv 
iBie irMjeed — bU at lavat It brought the Rowlands 



brave daim ttrdeed. and we're pwasM to say. not 
lar from The I ruin Was Itoynenr always deaiinedio 
becortiB Mayhem, though'^ Was a miended as 

No', says John 'ti wasn't designed aa a sequeJ 
lo C!&3!\nes 2 To be honest, they re Iwo different 
styies or ga^ne (n fiAavr^^rtf. rhe amphasis <s placed 
mDie on rapid, chaolic action, giving it a far more 
console-esque fesi ' That's feir enough but how 
many people will ouy ii to sea^ Can a new ongmai 
game stand up againar a mors estabiished one like 
Leininings. oi a kensed protfuct like Aden ^ 
'Obviously Aher^ 3 and Lemmings are going lo sell 
well iMcauseiriey' re so well-known, concedes 
John 'Ma)'hemmust make lis sales purely on ihe 
strength Ql thegame itseff mis is one ol Ihe 
reasons we leei il's barter than iis rrvals — we had to 
malte Ihe game QOOii. dE we couldn't rely orr Ihe 
name io sell n Nor only that but our pnde woukjn'l 
lei us release a bad gamel' Fine worxls, even hnet 
motives 

Finally, we asked John and Sieve to describe 
Meyfrem in ganeraJ Why does It eJiisT? Whai did ihey 
set out (o achieve wdh ip John explains 'A year ago 
Ae could see a ^p opening between consolea end 
home computers, wllh console owners having Sonic. 
Manoand the like to c^ exdled abOi4.SolCO(niOay 



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• fc u Mli^lr— ,lMh^««n vi ateM wi — 

fame wriTin C54 citcteE. In fact, many 
COMMODOne force readers <eel ClyOe RaOclitfe 
io be Ihe C64's equrvalenl Sonic of Mario — a 
' flagsfiip character, if you Irke Jolir>'s seems llatlered 
by Vas. and replies. Obviously, we're very pleased 
mai Creaiutes 1 anfl ?are seen this way, as we pul 
a lot of time and elfort inEo itiem ' Slushing aside. 
John finds Ihe time to make a shameless boaEt We 
feel that Mayhem will also be seen as a flagship' 



One we oiSBled Mayhem lo fiM this gap. pushing ii 
abtwe anylhing else ewer seen on the 064 With its 
Buper-tasl tuH-screen full-colour scrolling, detaileO 
graphics, interactive sourvl. ir>ielllgeni monsiers. 
directional attack poinls. non-standard colours. 
Hidden bonuses, thousands ot slars and eitras lo 
'Collect, superb presentation and immerise playability 
if s as close to a console garne as a C64 can gel — 
SI a fraclion ot the price (hee heel li woulO seem all 
that drinking has impaired lt>eir ability to lie modest. . . 
but hey — Mayhem's a great game. Pediaps they 
can be lofgiven ibis time. 

Obviously, the Rowlands are pleased Ailb 
Mayhem — and why nof Its probably the best CM 
plaltonn games ever and. had il have Oeen around 
at the time, it would tiave appeared around the top 
(If not. a/Ihe top) ot our All-Time Top 100 Games 
feature Could there ever be a sequel, though? We 
can but hope 

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'i\ rj Itriij till uf mayhim crvery 
nuw r«i!l Iher To taal olf tlia 
slincvklGs ol conformily and , 

swing riK on a hig iHngonl. j 

I'lavlny Ihfl mpresaion of ^lV^ng i 
in ihii wiirlU of Ihe ninelies lai 
htrfiinci 

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drti&siiKj up as Adam Aril Tuj 
yiiii JJiiclG Tony'& Turierdl, or , 
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lollels m SI Pancias slalion oul ol Nolls 
Counl^ 5eaEon IicKbIs, or giving away — 
yes. actually giving fimay — a branO new 
tokiLjrTV among olliGr Ih logs 

To cBiBbratB me ibIbbes ol Ma^em, | 
WB're running a spooal compalilion. Slop I 
wnaleuBi you te Ooing, gat IfioSB crayons 
oul. and draw, draw, draw' We manl 10 
see r^noon strips involving Mayhem, Oul 
iney must be tallied viilti tre slonch ol 
clmos Pamaps a piciureorMflybem 
hghimg with Wriny Jonas oulside a 
Solihull Kebab shop, or Mayhem 
perlorming open haart surgery on Michael 
Winnar (yaith a lin opener and a Kit Kal. 
pemaos). or Mayhem, er, rloing 
Bomelhing Bise'' The lunnier I ha beltar 

First prize is a monitor. I he saixind 
prue IS a slerBo. and Ibere are also ten runners-up 
pn;es of a ijinosaur Or something In lacl, asatie 
breaKer, complala the (ollowing sanlence on Ihe 
back r>l your submission: 

. While I've no doybt Ihose Dinosaurs would look 
greal on my manlolpiece, cause they're obviously 
smad, I'd still prefer the TV or the slereo 
bi^causB 

Send your eninas 10, Heyl Great' I reckon I could 
wrn a TV, a slerso or, um, soma DinoB Comp, 
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hurKli&.^ words, (Hoi rt be easy eriourjh, bijl no' Am 
t noT Ji pioTessiftoaP I shall Trear This siliiaiim as a 
cftatienge I ^alF write m dr> amusing anO 



Morrlbis 

hard stutt 

Ihat Lsmmings 

can't dig through. 

Al leail it 

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' hardly nolico The larj d( ihose lamous sairipkeii. 
VVnete ihings wjuldVe bocome Incky is m The 
jo/ilk':** conliol A rrmnbG — 

dllriws you to move 
almost rn^lantaneoj^ly 
Irom orie part oT the 
scfeen lo anolFier — 
es&eniiai in such a 
game To avoid 
unnecesaarv liOdlirig 
around, acijonsare 
highiigMed by using 
the riumber Keys 

Suicide is 
fun». 

To make things easiei 
sliii it£ po^ibleto I 

scroll around and | 



oaused This means 




lalalive immobilily ol the loyslltk and Bllnftule 
problems are all but oiadltalcwl 

Things lend lo slow down a tail Htien Ihoie's ? 
lot ol activily hut Hi", almost wenn a blessing, 
ylving priKious ""tru ieconds lo t|8ltiijr your 
IhougbK To Keep Hiioic, iiiiiniiii] nt .1 docrTi 
ralu, Uie play aro.i Hi only about liafi a ^tiwen 
wide a little discnin.urlmti nt tirsl but ImndisFi. 
iidrlLClii™ play 5rinn 'livfciiti your aiioniion 

So tho complimonK iire out 'i( HH' wi/ nowltK 



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Icatkle'i Fijr a ' 
start theiei. 
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meres Gioal 
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Lemmingf 
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9 A Lemmings orgy. WeJI it'* got to be. 
hscnt it? What else could they l» doing? 

I could gnpa aboul Ihe fad there's never moie 
than thirlv Lemmings lo a level tiul I NaT would 
over-complicate things Okey. h©tes one Ihal 
nevoi lails — muinioad. Gel nulla Ihis one, 
Alter Developmenls Oh no [no pun tnlended, 
horiesl]1 Lemniings has the leasl officious 
muJTi'load in hiaTO'y, because when VQi" ^each 
a level, you stay there unlfl iTs complsted 

All light, so loading's bil of a drag <ti lirst. as 
early \BVbis are so mm pie, bui once you gel 
into the lougher ones t\ fades into 
Insiflnilinance Jusl remember lo wnle down 
those passwords and make a noie ol 





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Pi>&«ibiv 
one of ^ 

Lemmlngi' 
moat 

entertaininff 
moments... 

Iho lape I 

CQunteF. 

C64 
£.emm^rr^5 hs a 
I me 

achieve meril . 

There 5 only one thing Ihat really goes agalnal i1: 
Ihe timing The origliial game's been popular lor 
nearly four years, so l^ie v^hole thing's }U5E a bif 
old hal There was even a Spectrum version way 
back 

Receni 'Work Jn Progress' lealures gave some 
iBasansforilsitelavedC64 detnil. bui ihequeaiifm 
mmain:^ — dn^eslJllnued Ltinnimtg^ In my 
opinion (artd Ihal ol ptkisI readers. judgHK] from the 
mal we get) the answer IS V^ ii s a classic, lotaity 
ongtnal wt>er^ lirsl released ai>d nothing s come ckse 

ance. Evan Lemnungs 2 

DO Ihe AndgH duesn'l 

have the same ch<]rin a:^ 

lis predfHXfiSOf . 

CG4 Lotnnwtgs a spot 

on con- version ol a conv 

FKllmg 

legefxi 

Oon'l 

leave 

home 

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' So it'i arrlvad, than? ' 

Ona of Ihe mosi iBlked \.l^ '-MtW 

aboul — nol lo mention' "v^ i 

ofig^nal — games dI all rime, Lammlnga 

la aomethlRg else. Vou could shova It 

Into a calegory, call 11 a God or siralagy 

game, but II a sllll Iho nail tilling 

amount ol playHlilllty thai makes II ao ^ 

apecia'. Unlike the Spectrum version, 

CS4 Lemmings has up to the itiflvlmum 

100 potential suicides ol the Amiga 

version on-screen a1 any one (Irne — 

Sir Cllve's litlle baby could only bandia 

ZO. II even sounds well: Jeraon Tel's 

marvellous lunes are, alinougn a wee bH 

cula» neverlhelasB very llstenable. In 

lacl, rm so lmf>resEe<J by ^64 Lamming^. 

Id go as tar as lo say this Is Ihe best B-bil 

version I've seen — even Its multlloail la 

bearable. In lacl, why are you reading this 

now? Why aren'l you nipping 

out to buy It? Miss this, and "^~^^J/ 

you're lelllng a place of * jT/ -y, ,■ 

aoMware history pass you by. ly^j* y UM 




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You can't blame people 
for being cynical. Convert 
Lammings to the C64? 
Impossible. Or so il 
seemed. E&E software's 
conversion of the original 
Amiga classic Is every bit 
as good as we'd hoped it 
to be. 

' 4£ Soltwar© (lornially Aller DGwelopmoiits) 

haw jLisI put the (iniphfnq ioucIigs to 
LBmifnga - po&sibly ihe masi holfv'f^*^"^''! 
lille Idi the Ce4 in years. DeEpilo endless tieddlit'e 
enlensions. conlrovorEy and ol course, the 
Baparlure ol Nikai Ejik. they've managed to make it 
— in ou< opintpn — Iho best B-bil version nf the 
DMA Ocsigiilcl) classic Altei all (He Its anil hiils. 
ItSlmatly ready, but wilH the bene'il ol Hindsight, 
would me loam do anythiny fliflererillyT 

■| wnutd've seen lo iT thai the commiiniccilinn 
beEwoen the members ol Ihfi loflm — ana 
Psygnosis woiikl be Iwlici ' admits Romi, Tm 
sine ll^ngs Exsuld have gone a lot smooTliei ' 

Thomas, onltieotbor tiand, I6 mate concerned 
wilh Iho locllnicil BilW ol IHIiiys 'For a starl I'd 



have uEQd a PC miili Crass AssomblBf and pod 
ovBi¥thii>g down to the C64, insload ol the toiii 
C&A sel-up I'm using ill the moment " 

Bill did the team ever tiave Hie" doubts about 
tlie conversion? Wsie llioy bvbi lenvlBd to Itiiow 
the lowel m and csl It a day? 'Yss, on WneB sucTi 



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Graphicer Musician 



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d& sevtin 111 ihe morning, having woFk^d Ihroug^i 
The whole nighl. [Bveala Thomas, only lo Find the 
dish I'd iHren a^ving all my eBscntiiil code on had 
cur ru pled ' 

Romi. on Ihe olher hand. revGiils a more 
opHmtBtic altilud© Nol reallv O' coursB, Iheie 
wore mnments where Ihings (i>5l flidn'i seem to go 
Ihe Wiiy we'd have ^anled Ihem to go. bul I never 
fllnppGd believing we wore able lo pull il oU ' 
Jeioen suma il iip m a single word tJo 
We asked iFio loam abojl the bigge^^l problem 
Ihtfy encouniared dunng production ^Squeezing as 
much as possible <0lQ ihe memory — every bit is 
used, sayfi Thomas, with Jeroen also having 
EUltered technical dif^tcullies Separahng Ihe aufl"> 
data horn the nudio driver ' enpliiins Itie lunesier 
Usurillv ihase are loaded nio mernoiv at the BJime 
[line. In Lenvmngs, the driver is loaded once while 
(he dala is loaded in every level This was needed 



THE DAIiiir !^ESiGN 



Ttta rrian tiehif^ Lemmings, so lo speak, is an 
incfividual Kmwn as Mike Oaiily at DMA 
Design We asked film fiow the idea was 
loitnecf, 10 which he responded, 'Tbis one's m the 
hisrory tiooka by now, but il you've lost yojiE I'm 
^re I can lei yon know,, 

'Orie lunchtime arour>d Aogjst 1 990 1 was 
occupying my time tjy creating a small Dpaint 
animalion. It was only eight frames, Cwt had 



hundreds ot llttte men wafl<ir>g up lo a gun and getting 
shot, A guy called Gary Timmonda then aflded some 
other men, touched up the animalKihs and then we let 
olhere see n Russei Kay — Hie programmer ol PC 
Lemmings and Lemmings 2 — was somew*>at 
amused end was sure Uieie was a game in ttiere 
soniewt»efe He then did some tests — Lemmirtgs 
walking around, tailing elc, and Ihis was shown to 
Psygooss at one ol the campuler shows in London 



Later. I did some tests — on a 
CW ol aN things — but 
evenlualty Dave Jones look up 
Uie challenge on tt>e Amiga and 
history was rrade ' Did Mike 
think Lemmfngs wouk) be as 
succeeeful as It has been? No ' he says IDkBV.ne 
thought It would be big. Dutnol,,, BIG!' 

Finally, we enquired about Psygnosis' reaction alter 
fiisl seeing Lemmings. 1Mb confkJanliy answers It 
you rememtier most people's reaction when Ihey fitsi 
saw It, It was much the same wnh Psygnosis One tjig 
■WOW, COOL,', You cari'l really say much more 
than that, can you? 
Finally, we managed lo get in touch with a Isilow 



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more colourtuF 'Ofily Slaving twu dilltvcnl ctrlour^ 
our of a pallet ot ioLif lo crejie rt ligf^l Jiource on all 
Iho c^i^l^ ai^d grourids '. wAh Remi cheekily 
admilling Trying lo lind now excuses lo kocp 
Psygru>sis happy and inleresled!' 

Obviousfv. 'itltng every element ol The Amiga 
ongmal Inio the CG4 version Aould Lie nigh 
imposslbte Whal where the mosi drtticult 

□ompromJsafi Thomas and 




Leon had lo make a& programmer and graphiCGr 
respeclivaly^ Thomas answers 'Having to 
squeeze the five-screeo Amiga levels into I wo 
screens on ihe C64 — you could say Ihey're 
complelely new levels Mso h&ving ro leave out 
some levels an(f I raps due to memory 
restnclions Leon, again, is preoccupif?d tv^th 
golden hues. Crealing colourful levels Aiih only 
lour colours he says, echoing many a giaphic 
arlisfs dissahsf action willi ihe CMs limited 
pjleHo 

Bui would Ihey do il aW again '' Rem is 
indecisive 1 ihmkLio oi. ' isa sharp conlra&t lo 
Thom,is' quick Gel real'' However. Lome's l^r 
moie positive aboul the profecl. trjsponding 
CoiTainlyf in a similar m.-jnner lo Jereon s 
Ahsolulely' 

We rtoi^l kno* about you bl out I ho re, hui if 
[his la what Ihe E&E guys cnri do wUh iheir tirsl 
ever piece ol conimercifll soflHaie. we eagerly 
awail luEure produclian&-.- 



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Icnown as Greg DuddiB 
'He's the Producer ol 
Lemmings, and has beeri Involved with mors 
games ihan mosi people have eaieri hoi dinners 
Having hearO about ESE's sifcuses [Peml'G in 
particular], we asked him whai it was like to be 
working w^lh the leam 'Remi and the othersf 
Hmmm. alihougha decent, likeable bunch and 
very competeni on Ihe C&4, they were 
hotohou&ly diMiculi To pin down to any kfnd of 
deadline — "H s almost ready, it'll Birlve or^ Fnday 
etc'", Finafly, we enquired if working on C64 
Lenymtngs had aKected him in any way 'Aaarghl' 
he Bald l can f believe il's overl' Whatever could 
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In a worid where 
money talks, net to 
mention an industry 
where It also sings, 
dances and plays a 
variety ol musical 
instruments it's good to 
see there's still some 
people in it for pleasure at 
the expense of profit. 
MILES 'JINGO — THAT'S 
VERY REASONABLE FOR THE 
PRICE' GUTTERY pulls on his 
bargain-boots and wades 
into Binary Zone's new PD 
compilation^. 

You may be lliinhing inerB's a lack d' 
soMware aiounO Fof me C64 these days Ot 
course M would be silly to suggest the 
scene lo be as prolilic as it was The heady Oays o[ 
the late eighties when C64s really were number 
one are riow truly behind us but, despite the steady 
decline in guanllty (though not necessarily qualily) 
ol contmerciat soltware over the lasL IB mon[^^E, 
there's still one area Ihnuing, probably more than 
ever belore — Public Doi"aln That's where many 
ot tomorrow's main programming boOs are loday 
Gaining expenence. sharpening up their routines 
and, most importantly, gelling 'rteaid about' 

Voure sure 10 have read Public Sector in which 
our gocjd maffi from the land ot clogs and dykes. 

BC-FORCENo.lZB NOVEMBER 1993 



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I he eminenr flemi Ebus. writes about Ibe latest 

demos lo check oul These usually involue spanky 

visual andfor sonic eflecis. to which you sit there 

and say 'Cor, 

thal's a bit 

clever!' But 

thaf 5 all you do 

— sit ihare. 

Forlunalefy 

Lhare's more lo 

PD than snazzy 

demos — us 

also 3 ncti 

source tor 

cheap, original 

games. In 

recognition ol 

this top C64 PD 

suppliers. Binary 

Zone, have 

compiled 42 

playable games 

on one tape, all lor the nominal lee ot six quid 

(that's 1'1.2S6 pence par game it you're interested) 

As you'd expect ii's a. pretty mned bag. 
Somelhing tor everyone you mighi say. Homage is 
payed to crusty arcada/console classica' with 




GaWnan and e playable enough |or at least as 
ever il wasi rendlLion at Pong You know the one 
— each player has a Bal either side ol the screen. 
Hie idea being lo hit a 
■ball' back and forth iml 
soineane misses 
Foigetlably enthralling, 
character bkxk 
graphics 'n' all Ttiare's 
even a Donliev Xong 
uanant, bul I don' I 
remember OK being sc 
blimmin' (lardi Barrels 
and lireballs corrte at 
such a rate Its unlikely 
you'll ever get to Kong, 
lei alone rescue thai 
poor damsel 

Inevitably there's a 
spnnklingolSEUCK- 
'em-ups lurking 
amongst the other liilei 
ranging fiom deeply dull lo Ifie quile impressive. 
Most visually pleasing is Groa The Piiie 
Beautilulty sculpted backdraps add B lol lo lairly 
unchallonging gomeplay. Tliere's also ofie or iwo 
trom the man himsell, Alt Yngvie, 




A couple ot adventures rear Their le*ty 
^ heailB or side Iwo, Haunted Mansion 
\ berng The belter tiT [he» Doft'l gel 
I over-eKciTed. Though, as it's a prelEy 
f rriedlocre aflalr with very poor 

resporiBBs, a limiled uocabulaiv (II 
' didn't even seem 1o understand 
EXAMINE!) and not much To see. If iis 
I puzzles you're eHer Ihen Ihree Tgliis 
clones are on offer, the besT ol These 
I being Tvnsler It looks fairly sedafe 
I buf this t:ielies a fiendish ly-ctiallenging 
I anO addictive liWe number Ten skill 
' levels are cenain lo keep you going 
for that eiira line 0' Two, making il mlhouT douBI 
the pack's moBl outstanding tills. Another va nation 
on ifie ITieme Is Vious Its dear. unclotTei'ed play 
area is attiactive and Itrerc's The ailded tioniis of a 
Two player mode in winch creating multiple lines 



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Hfiy. w/e're geTIing good al l^tese dutt head'ogs 
arefll we'' J^evecTheleBs, iTS aNvays very oilftcuH 
1"? rale individual PD gamei or collecliOnb CuliI^ 
yuLj cniiifjare any tf( ■) Tg, say, AU&i* J' Of 
Lommffigs"' Tt)e lis! could gu on and on prtia 
cheep, cfieoriul aiKl ct Laugh However, il a 
con>pAre to wall-wnlten full-jjnce sohwafS, 
Itials why PD Gatnes Tape 2 la rated 65*S 
an above-averaye cjinpilaiion. bjl ignors] 
50%fHlef5 and yiiu'v*"- ■■ •ii^-t,,,- ii„ - 
CotLecliCin at yctrno^ i ■ 

moreBiflnonce Ai&< ,u 

amoutn of code. tiMpi^uiiOb <^ 'juitoa 
money ro pay for PD 




corT>p:es6Q£ your opponents acieen ir % only lei 
down by alighlfy unresprinsjve controls. Dul afiH a 
good b'aET The \fMit3 (s HoJarions. but unclear 
graphics ancf fruBlmlingly-slow play Mill i1 Blone 
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Novelty vaiuB tmmes in the torn of Creapei ^nd 
Cieaper2 The games themselves are completely 
and uITerly naif, but quite amusing as bact^grounds 
and sprues are diieclly lifted from the Cieaiuies 
games (Probably — Legal Ed) Play consists ol 
walking to and Iro on a stalk: screen collecting 
Hems while avoiding baddies — Clyde wouldn't be 
amused 

For the diotionanly-minded there's a couple of 
word/phrase guessing games. There's Hangtn&n 
— everyone knows that one — and The Name 



Game, winch involves guessing letters lo reveal 
a well-known lllle, saying etc M's not loo well 
thought out, Hiougfi, one phrase il came up witti 
was 'Throw out the gauntlet' — yes, well STill. H 
do. I t'pOBB 
As proceedings 
draw 10 a dose, 
anyone who 
enfoysd thai 
ancient fossil of a 
!■ ties! nut Horace 
And The Spldefs 
on tfie Spectrum 
will be pleased To 
hear Monsle' 
Panic pays it more 
than a respectful 
nod The screen's 
made up ol a 
series of walkways 
linked by ladders 
I'ld patrolled by 
I'.isly crealures 
'ou' re armed with 
H liBfty mailat — 
The itJea t>eing to 
knock hHJies 
ibiough pialtorms 
which the monsters will attempt to mend. However, 
wTiile tt^ey're making Their repairs you can sneak up 
and blaT them Once you kill ali the enemies on one 
screen, you slarl again with mora monsters 



# Pong in 

j all it's 

Olory. 
Despite 
the name 
Ihe game 
doesn't 
■mall hall 





Monstsr Panids noF bad biit a bit Jerky and 
sluggish. 
Without wanung lo slate ttte pack {42 games for 

eiK smackeroonies — c'monj lt>ere's 
no getting away from trie tact That, 
apart from Ibe reirjs-iles. oneor 
two SEUCKed efforts and a couple 
of others Itiere's rrothmg here To 
keep you playing lor more Than a 
couple of minutes Its very che-ip 
but. tor trif- . i;"- 

not all that flflilJMS' * 
ctieerfui. V'JlSSSSSlF^ 

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Hovudy WksWa 
COMMODORE FORCE 
compn Thme ags^n. Yap, lo 
cormnemorate the calecJysmic 
eirenls o( ihis month — 'irsOy 
rne (Miles) crash ing my car 
(again' — Just So HaopenM 
To Be Paesengsr Erl] and 
secondly Lemmings, wave yollsri logaUie' wUh 
Psygnosis lo brinci you anolher greal 
opporlunlly io grab a load of Uee lool. 

So (SOD). Ihers I was. driving mefrily along on 
my v/ay lo worii, Ihe svteel melodies ot The 
Georgia SaieilHes billowing Irom llie sleieo. 
TlierB's nolhing like cruising lo aome cool 
sounds wilh Ihe Highway stralching ahead o' 
you, Ihen KKERUMP' Some dope "ad parked 
rijw in Vie middle of the road and yours Iruly 
obligingly ploughed straight inio him My tovely 
new car now resides al ine local garaga, a 
sorry sight lo behold lE's headlamps smashed. 
Dumper t>enl and shiny terTder buckled and 
broken Excuse my whining but it's been a 
hummer ola weak... 

But bach to Ihe comp There's len goody 
bags containing Lemmings and Psygnosis 
marchandlaa ihat must Da won. Hats, T-shirta 
— you name It, it's in Ihese bundles of 
brilliance, probably II you'd like 10 lay your 
hands on one then here's how to get in with a 
chance — jusl Lhmk up an answer lo our litlle 
temmrn^s-related one-liner. 

•■ Why did the Lemming croSB the 

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The leasl cnngeworthy ten 
our good selves and the sendi 
rewarded Send your entnes It? 

Oh dear, Ihey really are scrap! 
of the iJarrel for these competilio 
COMMODORE FORCE, ImpacI 
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It's hardly sociable, is it? 
To jump onto someone's 
face and impregnate them? 
Or, come to think ol it, 
ripping them apart In a 
single flick of a tentocle! 
Aliens are a nasty bunch 
and should be wiped out on 
sight. JAMES 'FACE 
HUGGER' PRICE sets his 
flamethrower on Deep Fat 
Fry... 

OOk, il'& plot a baO thing lo plRv oames On 
CFlhei syslems, nkay'' Rsrely a c(ay giies By 
wthoul us ror+^iwing a iGlTer thai condemns 
every console/I 6-bil game in evislencQ 
Psrsonally. Vve always believoti iliai each system 
has lis ments, and to dismiss every olhec larniol 
it's jusl pointless, nghl' The C6A has a massive 
software base, with same ol ils lilies head and 
sdoulde's aboue other machines' eflorts in terms ol 
playability. design and Qenerai excellence. These 
days, mulli'foirnai releases are commonplace; on 



tad they're cut-Oawn versions ol aames designed 



IwD previous Alien films), Nem (s young giii 
rescued in ihe previous lilm), Sisbop |a simulant 
partially killed by Ibe alien queen in Aliens) and Sgl 
Hicks (a member ol ibe doomed leam ol marines in 
Aliens) crasfi douvn on Ihe prison planet 
known simply as Fionna 161 Hicksand 
Newl die inslanll/. Bishop is, due 10 
the tact Ihe planet is devoid of 




spaoitiOBlly for otbei — mainly 1 6-bit — systams 
Ol course, tfiere's an exception lo every rule: 
releases such as Flabocop, IVavy Seals and olfiers 
have been tar belter than Itieir counlerparls 
Which, Quilo noatlj I (eel, Dnngs us onlo the 
subiecl ot Alie" 3 Having t>een released on the 
Mega Drive and SNES lo much critical acclaim, 11 s 
now available lor Ihe C64 li compares favourably 
In tbe Alien 3 dim Ellen F<ipley (beroine nf the 

KC-rORCI No.ia NOVEMBER 1993 



iBDhnofogy requlrsd to repair film In any / 
way, eflectiuely dead as well Riple/is / 
rescjed by the pnsonersi and Their small / 
com I ngent of supervising olficers, and / , 
spands a week recjperaling m Ibe 
prisons infirmary Aller recovenng 
sufficiently, Ripley becomes 
cor'vinced thai a Face Hugger — a 
crealLire responsible for Ihe forcible , ^; 

(and subsotiuenily fatal) ■ j 

impregnalion of the alien seed — was 
ahoardhercralf before and during Ifre ^ \^ 
crash Unbeknownst lo the unfonunale ' 
allen-killing veteran, thai very crealjie 
escaped immadialely after the coflision wilb lf>e 
planel, (ind infecied a dog 

Unfortunately, Fionra 161 l3 devoid ol any 
prjteriiial alien-waslmg weapons, leaving the 
pnsoners vulnerable Picked olf onR by one, Ibey 
evenlually dispatch ol the Giyrir-dosigned crealure 



by way ol an elatK>rate plan — trapping it and 
submerging it in moHen melal. 

Disregarding the 



all 
loci 

V 



So here's the real laugh ol the day; m C64 Alien 3. 
Ripley's absolutely loaded with weapons. 
Flamethnjwers. repealer nflBS, ._. ^. 

grenades,, yog name it, she'll 
tJfow up an alien with it Of which. 
CDincidentally, Ibere are many — 
Ihe one critier of the film appears 
to have become literally hundreds 
during Ihe conversion. Through nlne- 
orso levels, Ripley has io avoid (or 
destroy! the alien menace while finding 
and rescuing trapped prisoners 
Alight lima limii counts down 
While she moves — and she 
. moves well Through the 
mullidirectionally-scrollmy 
areas, Ripley runs, sbools 
and climbs in a well 
animated (if a little rough- 

, looking) 

, manner, the 

aliens are 

■ also fairly 

well-Oelined. 

. Alien 3 s back- 

*■ - grouotteaiB 



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• Dm thing thai DID bug «■ «bovt JWm 3 

is that, when Ripley slides (aboveK it'* A 
sICM ^nd ponderous happening. Surely il 
could' va been a bit faster, yes? 

- a\ lirriob slurming, proviclirig coiimt'lifr 
fivcflllDnce while nol impoding the mam Itow ol (he 

Film llc^ences became big busmess around \9&b. 
when soMware houses began 1o realise |usl how 
lucidhvQ movie iie-ins [:an Eie Sadly. iTto quality of 
1l>a ctulual games was frequenlFy neglected, glossy 
advertisemeoEs, packaging and — of course — ihe 

wBli-krtown name ofien disguised 

iinpleyeble soltware wih Me in 
fc- cofnmoFi with Ihek cinemalrc 
L subjeclmafler (fwero 
H honesl. qualhiy I Nm- based 
r games are <ew end far 
E}i?iween — you know 
what? Aiien 3 is one ol Ihe 
*" lew' 11 doesnt follow lis 
parent's ploi closely — 
gone the opposite in fact 
— anfl despile lis obvious 
lechnrcal encellence, il's glhlchy rn placed. Qui wih 
Its large amount of options, siirprhsmgly 
unoblrijsiwe muHi-Joad and large, well- 
rjesigned fevels, Alien Js a winner 
II sounds good, it's large sna i 

challenging m leci. Id go bach I 
and play il for a while longer iF it 
wa^n'HoFlhts damn 
slomach- 
ache I I 



ey's 
luteW 
A with 
ipon 





• Wow! After playtng this 

on SNES. Megadrlve 3nd( 
Amiga I was a IllUe dubious 
as to how well ihe C&4 would cope, but i 
concern turned ro relief seconds after 
r^hjng up the joyslick Instead ol turning | 
out a poor, toEmuia efforl bearing no i 
relalion to Us classy l6-bit big brothers 
(Addams Tamlly anyone?). C64 Atien | 
Js a straight conversion of the Amiga 
game {almosi — level layouts vary a 
Utile}. So should they have bothered? 
Yes, yes and thrice yesi Worra great 
|oJ> Probe have done — retsJoIng all the 
game's atmosphere with alicK sprites, 
qualily animation, g,V set In a dank, 
claustrophobic game wofid faithful to 
the dim fare you sure about tNs Miles? 
— Ed)- Ripley has an impressive array of 
firepower but It's up to you to decide 
whdt's best and where. Basicalty. Alien 3 
proves the ol' 6A can still mix It with the 

best of them — it's a first-class 

tie-mH grade-A conversion 

and wicked action adventure 

no gung-ho xenophobe ^_^A ./ Uj 

should neglect to own. 



ass 




Heyt Thlv l4 a big ovplloffi, l<n^ Ht What 
literary gems can I write here* I wonder? 
If only Clive left small spaces, like that 
nice Claire woman. Ahli, but Ihat's just 
life, I suppose- Now where was I... 



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CURViCEOUS 
COLIl^ Z^BLES 




Puis* 
Rifle 

Fiiea rapiO 
Bureis 0' 

powerful 
shois. 



Ro(k«t 
Lnunibor 

Slow but 
devHSlaling 

— usatul 
agalnel me 

ififee 
gaurdkans. 



fiaiit« 
Thro war 

Has a stort 
firing range, 

butiKOfks 
wom^r&in 

dose-up 
batHea. 



Cr«nwl«l 

Lettialbul 

slow, Ihis 

weapon's or>e 

toi 

emergencys 

only. 



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At the end of the third (and 
quite possibly last) Allen 
film, viewers saw Ripley ^ 
actress Sigourney Weaver 
— die. Bearing in mind 
Ripley's importance in the 
films, is this the end of the 
Alien as we know it? What 
does Sigourney think 

r C-FORCE Ns.l 3 NOVIMBIB 1 993 



herself? ALAN BRTCC 
investigates... 

"1 like pla/ing women who are isolaleO Irom olhers,' 
says Sigourney Weaver, Women wtio aie aicmf 
liom sociely I've never waniaO to play wives and 
moitiets Give me llie role of a psychotic or a 

vHlainess any dey'' 

Her moEl (amoiia role iB — Dt course — Ihal ol 
Warrant Otiicer Ellen Ripley, (ull-iime aiien-hunler 
and The [hinliing sci-fi buH s pin-up. As the sols 
survivor ot Ehe doomed spaceship Noslromo. ^e 



encountered tt^e deadly Xenornojph menaces tor 
the last lime in the doomy, gloomy Alien 3 Though 
audiences drdn't lest^nd well to Sigoumey's 
swansong movie, the J2-year.old actress 
maintains that the lilm turned out enaclly as she 
trad hoped it wouki 'We all gave II ckii l>ffSI shot,' 
she shrugs. 'Bui Ihe pressure mas loo great lo 
eqoal Ihe commercial success at Itie prevtous 
movies.'. 

According to Weaver, there wasn't any given 
rime when the Alien mastoiminds |ust said, 'Oh, 
let's |usl do another one' It was a very slow 
process and a long struggle lo get the ptojocl going 
inlhn lirsi place 

CI I -arty, audiences wonted more after Ihe huge 

■. ,'^ ol AIit}ti6. but we appioachrKl rl wilti a 

ijrr-.ii deal ot trepidation hi3&iuso Ihe tiisl two 
movies were so successful and so well done — 
everyone was woffied that the Ihtid wouWn'l 
mEOSUte up to the high standards set by Ridley 
Scott and James Came run. It took a long time 
tigunng out what slory we should tell and wfial 
elements we wuiild iry and iluplicnie 

■We all decided early on that Cameron had done 
gunssoPnlliantly it would be best not lo repnse 
that aspect, only when wie could comu up with an 
onginal idea and a wonderful diroctoi to match dirl 
we all agree to go nhoad ' 

Accoiding in Weaver. Foir initially opproacherl 
Ridley Scott lo ditecl ^Aeti J, but he was Pusy in 
pre-production on tiis Columbus epic. 1492 
Instead, they found that 'wondeiful direcfoi' in 
Vincent Yard, the eccentric and hugely laloriied 
film rTi<il(er responsible for Ihe rnucfi-praised 
medieval lanlasy. The Navigalo' His Input was lo 
set the film on a pnson planet and stir in lots ot 
religious themes. arKl an unusual Gothic 
atmosphere 

'Ward's coTKept was very original, and an 
airssiing one as far as I was concerned,' says 
Weaver 'birt frjr various reasons, hefelf he could 
not stay with the production To be fiank, I think he 
never really wanted to make an Alien picture in Ihe 
first plai:e There's a big responsibility aside from 
]usl telling a story. Perhaps lie didn't Ihink he was 
up to the demands I don't know ' 

A replacerTTenI was eventually found in pop 
video director David Fincher . vitia was very young 
but keen to tackle the enormous responsibility 
The directors have always been Ihe stars o( each 
Alien movie, really,' slates tfie aclress. and unlit 
we found tf>e right genius. Ihe/ten3pr0|ecl never 
tell sot Only when Findiei appsarad did we feel 
we were in good hands 

■Tt>e first words out of his mouth were, 'Shave 
Ripley's haadt' And I knew instantly he wasn't 
going to he a quiet and undaring director To be 
honest. I was busy having my baby. Charfotte 
during the eicmgaied p^e-prrxluction penod, so the 
longer it look, the happier I was.' 





Background effects 

LiaviU Pirit;ti(*< s bin:hijroiiP*fl is m f.t>f ciiiil I'lfof.lB, 
she explains Hi; wcirkod iil 1ridiiStn<tl L it]ht ^nil 
Uagii: lof years us a maHe pamler AnO to make 
this ivpe frf ^Tiouie, vou "set^ '^flt 'imd til sptfCjfic 
hi^o^edge and wklt^goess )□ pay aTienTton Id 
small Oelails Allhough Alien 3 v^as ^^\s leatute 
deDul he d sfiol iriHes o' rocK video film We 
lookea aT hia whole body of work 

'However, David berng an unknown ws^ Iho 
l^sl of OL^r problems Remember Ehal Pidley ScolE 
had only directed Tfie Duellisltieiote he did the 
origiral Alien. anO James Cameron refllty only hafl 
Prran'ra ? bo'ore ^a^/ens Aro those any batter 
qualilicalKjns for making an A'len mo^le'' Fhncher 
was flraat to work with, and very tunny on what 
wasadifficuh, freezing, uncomfarlable sel at 
PlTlBWOOd sludios ' 

Weaver insists she had Tew misgivings about 
shaving her head lot the rote 'There are toads ol 
strange ha^rculs in England an/way so 1 dhdn't 
really gel [hat much attention onihe streel, own 
though 1 was a siK-fDoi-taH bald woman* My 
husband (theatre director Jim Simpson) was very 
supportive Ho told me he liked il BjI alter my hair 



had hrialV grown bacrti, he admitted he haled I1. My 
daughter tned riot !o iaok al me But she didn I 
have any hair eJther' I found it liberating None of 
the cast had hair ao rt was an indentlymQ mark. If 
you were bald at Pmewood you v^re in the 
piclufe 

Some cntiC5 ot the movie have unkindly 
suggested that because ihe cast are alt bald it 
makes li UaiO \d tell the characters apad. I totally 
dsagiee. says Sigourney H was ii siory point 
Tlie planet was intesied wiiti deadly lice, so 
everyone's head had to be shaved I felt it made 
peoples laces lump out more andlocused on the" 
vulnerability audiences are given enough to 
indicate who Ihey are There was some religious 
slulf we shot thai didn I make the final cut — 
prayer meetfngs etc — showing them m their 
wodd more But that communicates itsetl well, t 
think People know what to expect trom the AHan 
traijition and it didn't have to Oo dwelt on 



As iQf il being cast with mainly British 
performers. Sigourney thinks that the actors 
feglonni accents posti more ol a probfom lor Britl^ 
aiidiences than the Amenccins when it comes to 

l>eing able to lake Ihe lilm serioustv The 

Americans kive il. she srrnii-, .I'lh.nMiii I .i.. p 

getlli^ asked what a 



f IS' 

Early press reports 
stared that Weaver 
refused to sign on the 
dolled line until she was 
paid Ihe sum of C2.5 
mithon tshe only got 
Eia,000loi Arjen)and i 

was giveo complete script 
approval She eJiplains, 
'What } actually said was 
that I tove the character ol f 
Ripley and want her lo do 
something 5he hasn't had 
the chance to do before 
CeiTain things are biiiil into an Ahen scnpT Ripley 
has 10 say. The^ s an Alien here and no one will 
believe her Within thai fiamewofk 1 wanted flipley 
to tiave a diflereni set of circumstances and Ihe 
wnters carne through biitlianlty ' 

'Fat a long time in ^/;er7 3. flheS the Alien herselT 
— despised, feared and oulcast That a the one 
reason she s not alrajd ol these men The system 
has thrown her onto the garbage heap as well Ttie 
whole Idea ol slarthng life again by having her love 
aflaii with Charles Dance ar*d making tier deat Witti 
her illness and mortality was ait new maienat for 
me. which I lound extremely chaHenging Getlishly. 
I wanted those new chaNenges to interest the 
actress within me while adhenng to the basic 
storyline 

According To Weaver the third A^wnmovjeifiall 
3tx>ut mottieihood With regards to the senual 
politics and possible AIDS analogy, it's not forme 
to say what Thames people see in this movie,' she 
says White it was han3 not io IhmK of AIDS white 
shooting the picture, that goes far every movie in 
geneia! these days Motherhood is the through- 
line It was Fmcher's Idea to make the ending a 
tender, not brutal One II may be an Alien Queen 
foetus thai f^ipley tscarryinci. but it issiill her chiFd 
I wanted to be a mother loi a white until I was 
successful at it And I wanted Ripley to have a 
normal life as much as possible That tension 
tietween normalcy and clearly riot being able to 
have it brings Ripley into an intimacy with the Alien 
that the writers and I talked about a lot. The irony 
was never lost on me Ripley ^>ad a daughter arvl 
she tost hef. Nevi^ was her surrogate daughter and 
she lost her too Now she carnes a third daughter 
Within her, and 'I casts her f\er life " 

Weaver s co-producer credit oh A/Jen J entitled 
her to a further three percent of the film's v^rldwide 



profits, but It also meant thai she had to gel 
involved in some important production decisions. 
The pressure Irom the studio was [he hardest,' she 
sighs. I'd be on Ihe telephone practically every day 
askmq them to reduce if and give us more 
hrr-.-iining ^pace because wa were under enough 
strain as it was.' 

The film's single 
most controversial 
scene is the bleak 
ending, but accordfng 
\Q Sigourney its not 
V. such a bfg deal What 

I you see Is what you 
get.' Eheshrugs 
I 'Su'e. the chmax did 
I resemble Tefminalor 

2. tfui we didn t 
I change it We got wind 
Of the T^ ending jUBl 
' as we started prir^ipai 

shooting. We 
smuggled a copy off the set and read tf. In the 
earliest script draft. Ripley |ust took the stime dtve. 
But eventually il was felt that A^renjnad lo finish 
with Ihe two mosi powerful icons ol afl three 
movies taken as a whole — Ripley and the chest- 
burner We decided Ihat would be j^^^r^enougf) 
and coutdn I be related to any other film 

■ Vincent Ward had an ending where Ripley 
Choked up me foetus, got back into a space vessel 
and weni away t though that was ridiculous There 
was something very depressing about her heading 
ofl in a shuttle again The ending as it stands 
seems to me to be Ihe correct one Survival has 
lost iia allure This is her destiny, she saves the 
wo'ld She kills Ihe last Allen She makes the right 
chok:e.' 

In Ihe end she says that what she admired most 
about the character ol Ripley was the fact that she 
is eocool-hofldcd and never oanics She never 
thinks atxHJt what could go wrong, and has been 
such a privilege to play because she is toially 
drtferehl from me She s a comfoding presence 
and great company ITI miss that But there s only 
so much bad luck a person should have and she 
hias reached her limiti' 

White Sigourney s Alton Involvement is over on 
the acting aide, she may yet co- produce the ne<t 
far-off sequel Foi delimleiy has a script for an 
Alien VS Pferfaror spin off but that may have lo 
wait unfit other avenues are exhausted 

There are So many strands 10 explore.' she 
says. What is the ANen domg wrong' Where does 
Ll come from? What does it want from the human 
race? How does it communicate? I d like to s«e ail 
these Ideas developed To my mind, Ihe At«n 
image is anything that terrifies each of us on a 
highly personal tevel. manifested as the ultimate 
indestructible nightmare \ 

w C-FOIICiNo.13 NOVEMBER T993 



• ZapfMlIn £TBA 
Sporh. Either you've got It 
or you haven't — and the 
COMMODORE FORCE crew 
fall into the loHer category. 
We do manage to do the 
odd bit of exercise — 
James does some 
weighNifting ('guys, guys 
— I've got three pints in 
one hand'), Lioyd carries 
the letters bag into his 
oHice, and MILES 
'OLYMPING OFF THE 
COURT' GUTTiRY plays 
squash. As he's the 
sportiest, we reckoned 
Zeppelin's latest 
compilation was his Icind of 
thing„ 

Cripei — wRsI a Ut ol sports sima In one eaay- 
lo-stvaJlDw package Now that's Vitiat t colt 
VFM — or IS It? 



INfERNAflONAL 
TRUCK RACING 

Thjnderirg around toduous racing ciicuils in a 
fiijge ajpar-ctiarged ainculaied lorry may sounri 
jolly eiciling. Qui Zeppslin's inlBrprelallnn ol Ihis 
obscure sporl really tsri'l Hauing Eolally Tailed !0 
give any leelirrg ol weigtiL lo ihese monsier 
mactilnes, the (3Cir>gS nareltieleas quite (un. 
BuikJing up various aspects ot your trucli's 
pertormance wilti pniB mcnBy Irom previous 
mcflG requires tactical ttiouglit. as rJoes deciding 
wtiethei or not to tiead inio ilie pits 
JQr eKtra tuel and damage repairs 
aurlngaiighl race 

II you've QOt hall an t>our 10 
spare, tiers'sa tiarmleBSly marry 
way to till ttia time. 





AMIMCAN TAO 

Bleurgti' Minimal moves, dire 
graphics, need I say rriore 
ukay I hen — appalling sound, 
neluOdling collision detection 
and anlmalior) ol tow quality. It's 
very bad. it'H very Dad it's very 
vwy bad, vety very bad. . 

C-K»CEN*.I9 NOVIMBH 1993 




INfEUUmONAL 
ICE HOCKEY 

UghlSutely lcanTbee»rp©cTedtoaHdo*nBnd 
actually atiempt lo play Ihfs dungy trnle etJorl. 

Conlroi over yoifr parlhcularly badly -drawn 
players ts utrerfy fruslraimg. Unresponsive in 
the em rem© and The highly erratic inertia iU£t 
compounds annoyance Vqu can be loodHng 
along a1 a sedate pace one second and Then, 
before you Kno* ii, you lind yoursell hurtling 
lowards the wall comp lelery oul of 
control. Taclthng (s neai 
impossible wilh any accuracy — 
even v^iih iwo players any 
compatiiive elemeni is d*flr^Hd 
iiiv moLrniainou!! boredom 



WORLD MIOKY 

iTiii^l say Ihe most enjoyment I ever derived 
rri this most violent o' sports was the 
iiiTious 'odd shaped balf jokes — and Ihay 
-:\en'l vary Ijnny So could Worid ffugtybe 
le game ihat opens my mind To ihe spoil of 
-:.ivy lackles and heavier dnnkjng'' Ahem — 

f'j' A managemeni game Jn which all you da H 

I in.ise The best lifleenplayerG from 

. ji HmlTed squad and hang on, 

1 1 ret isn I any more ro <T1 It looks 

I IK -? enough, bul actually calling 

Ihis -t 'gaine' is tu siretch Ihe 

[r-.iTi Nni pvpii II'.-' '""■^i /flr^aNcal 





Cricrtel managBment — nnm Ihere's someltiinH 
you Oon'l sfls very olten in a compuler game 
Well I1iere'5 gjrle a ^jmple reason tor Thai 
actually, [here's roi very murh lo do. Ones 
you've sel Ihe opuons (one day rnalc", test, 
iQur.elcJelllharslellisto choose Iha 
balllng/fieldrng o'dei (hen let the game play 
ilsoil, ana itiafs what II does lo' Ide most nan. 
It's nicely presented and everytliing but you 
lust don'l gel much leeling of inwotuerrreni 
Whal's more, I'm not convinced II actually 
lollovs tlie roles o) the game all that closely 
Couple Ihis with some dodgy 
taclical decisracE ay lite 
computer — during one test 
tnalch I playsfl it declared al 
147 in the lirsi inningB — 
you're lett wilh a ralher 
unsalictactory eftod. 





CARNAOI 

Overhead viewed smgle-acreen IrackE 
ai© the Supej^"^»sque orOai o1 Ihe 
day wifh Camage. \n a sirrnlar wein lo 
SnsemaUona! Truck Racing (elsewhere 
or this comp), you gel lo soup jp you' 
vehicle belweeri races wilh pnze 
money won. In one player mode 
C^trngg^ leaTurea one ol the most 
pfuriiless league sysTems ever seen ih a 
compulef game. The player competes in 
a championship aiongside three olher 
drivers wilh points awarded altef each 
race, four for lirst place, Ihree 'or second 
and EO on. Fatr enough you cry bul 
riere's Ihe really slupid pari — \tni have 
iir^ish lirat lo qualify lor lUe nejt track In one 
. iFTie I was Hve poJois cJaai m The 
i.JiriinpiDnship hvhen ooe small hfccup meani I 
limafied third m the nenT race, only to De 
greeted by an Infernal 'game (wer' massage 
Things improve a hnle in two-player mode us 
only one needs lo quatrly, bul ifs slill flnnovi' 
I seem Eo recall this was 
recerved preHy wed SB a sland' 
alone release some monihs 
back All I can say is we mual 
have been m a pretiy 
benevoieni mnod at Ihe 
lime. 



iimiiiumoNja 



All the important options tor a tennis Bimotetion 
are incorparated into fntemaiional Tennis 
Thieie's a tootnomenl, one- and two- player 
Inendlies — Ihere's even an enjoyable lltlfe 
game lo match Its conlrot& are as instmclWe 
a& you could wish for, wWh a vanety of shots 
that you'll be playing like a professional after a 
couple o! goes. 01 course <1 a at ils besi (T you 
get a Irlend in lo play against, 
a^n so, the compuiar provides 
cnore than satlBlocEoty 
opposition lor Ihe lonesorrie 
among you Good, easily 
accessible strawberries n' 
oream tun. 



I_1UE lELEVieiOH COUEnnOE 



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WORLD 
SOCCIR 



Ttiero are inree looly managemenl games in 
Ihe pack — namely World Soccer, Kenny 
Dalglish and Graeme Soufiess — Dul as 
Ihayre all pretty armilar (read, almost identlcaJ) 
I'll talk bQouI the 'best' ore 
It's an odd lillle ctiap A soccer game in whicfi 
you compete as part of a Ihfea division league 
agaltisl silly top sides from around Europe A 
lauQfiabla match' saquerice does litlle lo tiide 
the painlully shallovv gameplay — basically all 
you do IS buy tbe odd player and replace leam 
member when ibey get iniured Waichir;g tt>e 
match comtnentary is good lor a cringe al tirst. 
Seven or eight nea'-illiteiale 
stalements pop up wnen 
ttteres a goal oi near miss — 
Brian Moote would turn in hia 
sweater. Been there, loaded 
iriat. won't be playing il 
lomorrow... 



With only Inn rjiimai rBmololy 




e4<aMiH*.4»* 



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It's been a strange 
month, there's no 
doubting that. The 
departure of 
! thris 
, Hayward to 
SHES FORCE 
has helped the 
office to be a less obscure and strange place. For 
example, his Mrult pastille meets triloblte' sculpture's 
gene, and we've picked up all the Just Fruits off the 
staircase, but the office just isn't the some, y'know? 
Gone ore his little messages subbed into my letters, but 
that's not such a bad thing — some of the later ones 
were a bit strange. Mostly nonsense like 'Tips Section', 
'Fire Axe' and 'That Infernal GuHery Fellow'. Anyway, 
on with the leHers — of which there ore more this 
month, due to popular domand„ 



QUESTIONABLE? 

Dear Lloyd. 

Your mag ie Ihe Besi bul. Ittal aside, I'd 
Ilka lo ask ytyt b tew guesllons. 

1) YoLf Reel Action tapes are cjroal — 
cioula you gel a Nobby ihe Asrdvaiii demo7 

We tend to only include caverlape 
Oemos ground the time a game i$ 
actually released. As you II well know. 
Nobby wai revieu/ed a tair while ago 

?) In Issue One you had 14 reviews In 
Issue ^Jilit? van only l^^ii four Wlly"^ 

Because tn Issue One we had 14 
games to review and In Issue Nine 
we had a mere lour It's not our laull, 
Cilame the aollwBre houses. . 

3) Wtiat grimes haueOeen ti\ea iw.i^ 
There's never been a game released thai 
has deserved (or Indeed received) a 100% 
rating. To be honest. I don t think there ever will 
be. 

4| Will there tie anollief Diz;y game oul? 

Not for the CS4. It's also likely thai, after the 

» C'FORCI Na.ia ■ NOVEMBER 1993 



conversion ol NESfat^taslic 
Adventures of Dizzy (a mish-mash 
ol the e^g's arcade and arcade 
adventure games) to other 
fonnats, Dizzy may be laid 
to rest for good. Don 't 
liju&te me on that though — 
the ovoid does have 
remarkable slaying power,-, 
5) Ar Ctinslmas, witl you give 
HE Ihtae Reel AcHon tapes 
instead at two? 
Perhaps... 
6) Who 5 Rod? 
Miles' brother 
Sorry 1 1 Itiis letter's 3 Pit long 
Billy OavlM, L»r4*wo»4, 
KanI 

• More questions! Could people try and avoid 
using them as much, please? Why can't we 
have debates, like we did in the old days, loam 
gibber... 
LM 




LOAD MOAN 

Dear Sir, 

Why is It that riew piogmms for the CS4 are 99° <> 
niLltiload'? When i l>ougnt my compuler back in 
I9B4, Ihere were programs lilte Manic Miner, Jel 
Sal Willy. Bruce Lee — all o( which loaciea in a 
single part Cook al rtie hE»tici;pter gimutalot, 
Tomahawk — all Ihal data loarterl in one go I've 
not long bougni Robin Hood. Legend OubsI. and 
once the lives cojnEeF reaches zero, yoo t^ve to 
lewina the laps to load what's alreaOy In Itie 
memory lis dsH! Even FreComfwlWoris 
another offender — when you crash, It lellsyouTo 
'rewind Id reio on side A' Why doesn't it |usl say 
'Turn compuler oft and toad again"" Isn't thai 
essentially what's happening? 

When will ihese C64 programmers get Itieir act 
logallior'? 
Philip BMIng, Eareit Gala, Londan. 

• I agree that multlloeds are a pain, bul 
somelimes they're essenlial. Games like Allen 
3 anff Lemmings are perfect examples othow, 
when well thougtit-oul. multiloads can facilitate 
the Inclusion of etira levels, music, 
presentation... the list is almost endless. I'm 
not a big Ian ol prolonged tape accessing 
myself, but then again, who is ? Now If l/ie 
games were to be released on cartridge.. 



NO SALE 



Dear Lloyd, 

Sorry — I'm an Amiga 500 owner (hopelully 
soon to t>e a CD32 owner Reading Dad?) ahd I 
was going to sell my C6i wilh disit dnve However, 
while I was playing a game il suddenly slopped 
working, so now I'm selling eveiything separate. I 
took the lol to a car boot sale, where a guy came 
up lo ma and said do you realise mat some early 
copies ot Ihose with tapes are worth E20'' He 
was. ot course, reternng lo my old ZZAPi's thai I 
was tlogging for a quid I immediately stopped 
selling Ihem 

I don' I khow i( you can undBralanfl wfwl I'm 
getting at, but I'm wondering It Itwse mags are 
rea//y worth something I've even dugout some old 
{1986) Vour Commodores, So please tell me — 
are these mags worth anything' Oh. and where 
can I sell Ihem? 



Thanhs for ihe help - if you help me, that ts 
Staarl Wlixhaitor, iwaiuca, W*<l 
GlaaiarguH 

*rmnol ture how much olilZZAPI 'a am worth 
— having nevvr sttempledto seli mtnc. I'm not 
paiKCfilnrly cliiecl-up an Ilia going tales Like 
niosi tilings, I'd say iFiey re tvorlh as much as 
intbuvet's willing lopay — which, whert Your 
ConunoOore's concamtif. oion ( Isa much at 
all... 

THREATENING 
BEHAVIOUR 

Dear Lloyd thing, 

I've got sonie [)ue«tiiJii5 foi you 

1 J Why an you weal Iha! siiip(c) Bag'' 

Why did you wrils this ttupld tetter? 

2\ How old am you? 

Twelve. 

3)Er.Ti. 1 togol 

Thai's not a quealion. 

4) Do you Ihtng I shoulS gal a dish drive, W 14 
Iflpe yames? 

I can't really ssy It'suployou — doyov 
weni the shoit-lerm grBtltlcat'on, or Ihe Inng- 
tarm Investmenll Ahli. decisions decjiioiis. „ 

It ¥00 don't remove that bag I'll yel a nieieoi to 
kill you Ha hai 
Lacnord BanllH, M HalMii, MMtaydda 

m IT I don t remove my t)3g'' For some reason. I 
doubt your meteor-f)iirtlng abilities. I'd like to 
see you try, ttiough... 
LM 



UBOr Uoya, 

I've had try CM since 
Chnslmag and missea Issue ' 
1 Dtdered M Irom the Foicefield 
Plaza, but Atien il arnved ii lii^'l 
Include the Iree lips bnohlel Is i 

Ihere any chance you oould send 
me one please? 

Tfie main reason lor my 
writing Ihi5 lellst is to - ■' 

say ttial, it the C64 Is 
slill alive and kicking, 

how come 

COMMODORE FORCE 

has been the deoanure 

ut lis Managing 

Editor and - '' 

Fealures 

Editor' tl shows 

ho* much 

taiih Sieve . 

ai^d Ian 

liad, Bilfrough I can forgive ~. 

lanashe's working lor AMIGA ^ 

FORCE. That iranor Stilelds 

should be isolated from home corokf 

lorever I also noticed that Chns did 

worti lor SNES FORCE, so lislen CI 

DON'T LEAVE US TOO' Thais abc 

really, but James should get the 

Managing Editor job Oecause . 




QUESnONABlE? (2) 

Qeai Lloyd, 

Have yoj any idea wheie 1 could gel s copy of 
Sltooldarg^ My tnend had a copy itgei ago and 
53"Ji1 was grefll, Tobeongii^al, here are sorrw 
rjLjDSTiona 

II I5 there any chance of MaiTaf KonWal coming 
out on thece^' 

In a nutshell, no. 

2) Are ifiere any more 
versii.ins ol SUeel Fighter 2 in 
I he pipeline'' 

Again, na. 

3\ I kniiw what has 
happeried to Sieve Sfiieid^ , 
bul what the tisll has 
hapTJPripd to li^n'^ 

He's working for our 
tister magatlne. AMIGA 
FORCE. 

4) Do you knaui where I 
can gel a copy of ZZAP' 64, 
Issue One? 

Actually, no. They're 
very hard to llnd— we've 
only got one copy ourselves... 

Vou'ie not going to print Ihis leHei — 1 can sense 
It 
SliMrt Prlt«, Darhy 

• Skooldaie was lest published by Altemallve 
— give Ihem a ring on 0977 797777 and if 
they've got any copies. I'm sure Uiey'll be more 
than pleased to sell you one. And I did print 
your letter — better get those senses' checked 
out, yes? 
LM 



umm he's go) good hair' 

Please print Ihis letier as I've bought every 
laSLie of your wondroua mag ard I personatty rtlll 
oever, ever, bjy a consolQ- 
CheorsUoyd 

, BridgWAtH, 
t 

• People moving from 
COMMODORE FORCE to ottvr 
m&ga^inos is a tact ot lite. What 
happens is that people are employed 
by Impact Magazines, and some of 
those get to viork on 
COMMODORE FORCE. Of 

course, the magazine's 
so marvellouSr 
^ ihey gel Itie 
^^ tyest possible 
training 
imaginable — 
that's when the 
, publisher steals 
theiTi from us and 
' puts Ittem on other 
titles. That means they 
- get to vtork m offices where 
water doesn t leak from the 
ceiling and the cockroaches don 't 
on desks and disdainfully point out 
natical errors in lexl. It's a 
_.oiion ofsorls. but everyone looks 

back fondly lo Iheir COMMODORE 
^ FORCE days. No really, they do... 



Dear LJayd, 

The reason for my wniing Is this voure Ihe last 
persrm lell Irom ZZAP! Who troulQ forget our tresh- 
(acBd Rodin Hogg nr the althletic Phil King? To pul 
Ihe icing on the cake, of courne. you were Itwre, I 
couldn't have asked lor at>yihirig else Bt Ihe timet 
Here are a few things thai I feel would help 
COMMODORE FORCE 
1)CallltZZflPI64 

2) Bring back Rob and Faity Phil 

3) Bring back the readers' 
challenge 

Please prini this leller ki see what 
rospnn^ft comes Irom other readers 
Andy 'ZZAPAHOUC Hwnt, 
pBfMneiiHi 
' ^ PS tn your questionnaire It says mat the 
llrsi pulled out of the 'lal will win a 
mystery priie How are you going lo 
send il to the wir^ner II you fiaven'l tell 
space fcr narries and addresses? Was it 
a con 10 make us send Ihem in? I Ihink 
ws need to know' 

• Ah. my friend. Nostalgia's one thing, 
bul the days ol ZZAP! are long gone, 
and I Oiinli it s lime lor you locome lo terms 
wllh Ihal. For a start, they actually had sohware 
In those days' Imagine COMMODORE FORCE 
with 30 games reviewed in an issuel We can 
but dream... 

The Miciop'ose Soccer reeders challenge 
will be appearing neat issue, and In reply to 
your questionnaire query. Uteres a good 
reason lor II. You see. we were testing our 
readers ' inteillgence. Would they include llteir 
addresses and . . oh, what Ihe hell. James 
forgot to include it in his mad rush to get Ihe 
Issue linlshed, and apologises for any 
Inconvenience caused. Probably. 



EXTORTIONATE! 

Oear Lloyd, 

Congrals on ttie great mag I've ^usl go Issue 
Seven and read Back to the Feature' 1985 I've 
found Ihat rnany of ihe games included are 
available Ihmugh EDOS Computer Visions (they 
advertised in Issue Four), Including S^^ooftteze and 
Theatre Europe. 

The matn reason I'm wnting is [0 comment on 
the pnce and availability of C6fl games In 0;. lis 
near impossible to gel games on disk and even 
harder on casselle For example, /ifly Heaf costs 
around $50 [E2a] at one of Austrailia's largest 
stockists, yel at AMMA Software in England II costs 
a mere S10 (C3 99) plus postage 

Anyway, thank you very much for compiling such 
a great, inlormaiive, lun magazine without whk;h I 
would probably still be paying iSO lor a game, 
T Botai, K*m|iMy, Aiiitralln 

• Ah. yes. James has been written to time and 
time again about Skooldaie and Theatre 
Europe being on EDOS — he's got the 
message now so you can all stop reminding 
him. okay? I hope you British readers tiave 
falren notice oljusi how hard it is lor some 
people to get CB4 software — thank your luclry 
stars lis not Ihat bad over here... 
LM 

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Daar Lloyii 

r^ been reading your Tine pjQJicalron — Jn both 
o( US guises — since ZZAPi 64 Isbub «45 (which 
lesiured a Rabocop rtsmo and Ifie gama Paralai 
or fhe coveriape^ Z^AP' was vefv good bul Ihe 
quality has ahot up since Ihen 1 MW MatI, Kalie 
and Gordo teave lo Be replaced wiih iha Hogg 
man. Fatly Phif and Slu and many nther staW 
changes. I can leji you 

The besi mouB ZZAPI Bver mailB was \o gel nd 
of Ihe AmiBa coverage — lei's lace il. Ihe Amiga 
useiB lUBre genmg a Oil cocky, ashing lorcovei 
dlsHs and telling Ce4 users to slop iivmg In the 
past) 01 oourso, the other C6* publicaiion at the 
time (CU, to all Ihosa o' you who (tont go back thai 
tar) became totally Amiga -orientated alter 
pievioirsiy promising ihey'd stay lailhlut to the C64. 
Luckily, you didn't do the same. alThough everyone 
though) you would 

I was a bil i/psei when I read an artlde Ihat aakJ 
ZZAP' had gone bust, bul — thankfully — shortly 
alterwaids you were back and kicking butt I didn't 
like Uia name COMMODORE FORCE at lirst — lor 
a slan you trad the same initials as Ihat other C64 
mag — and I thought you wouldn't retain ZZAPi's 
humour, but you did 

The best thing COMMODORE FORCE ever dkl 
waslopui some really decent games on Ihe 
covertapes, such as Spinflajyand The Blues 
BiothSfS Well done and thank you lor a decent 
C64 magazine 
Ini Bordan, Danliailar, Oonat 

• So many /ssues... it's been a long lime since 
I slarled. I don 'I Irnow nom (0 answer your letter 
as — well, you hauen'l aslied any qaestiona. 
Hmmm. Anyway, thanks tor the comptlmenls. 
ana Heap 'eaOIng COMMODORE FOHC£. What 
e baring reply... 

No, wall there — I can I be Ihel oil* and 
5 Tupidr Here goes w/rh The obscurities: TREES 
TREES, TREES AHO BEES, DON'T FORGET TO 
FEeOTHEGOATS. blither... 



cHiesnomBu? (3) 

Dear Ltoyd, 

I have ihree queslions that I woukJ like to ask 
you 

1) I find Itial I'm unable to get any of Ihe 
Idlest games because I don'l know wherp I crfii 
']oi liiL'm irrjin Please helpi 

Try some □> the mall order compenlea 
thai advenlse in COMMODORE FORCE. 
They're all very reputable and eflicienl. and 
have huge back catalogues ol C64 stock. 

Z)ln Back to the Featufo' l9eSyou said timl 
Tfachsull Manager is llta best football 
manogemeni gdme on the CM Where can I 
qtit It and how much does it cost? 

We're not sure where you can gel 
Tracksuit Manager these days — rls 
publishing company IHI-Tech} ceased 
trading a tew years ago. However, try a tern 
mail-order companies — again, they've got 
extensive C64 Block, and may jual have a 
copy... 

3) Finally, is Premrer- Manager ever going to 
be released on the CW 

I doubt It very much, 
Z«fl Bar1», CIndon-an-taB, I»*k 



■ C-FORCI Na. I 3 ■ NOVIMBIK 1 993 



THREATENING 
BEHAVIOUR C2) 

Deer Sir, 

After being a loyai reader lor over five year5 
and a CM owner for siighlly longer. I've seen a 
rapid decline in '64 sh ell space over that penod 
ol lime Recently, I've teen searching lor a game 
called Speedball. As ^ou can imagine, I was 
honitied when I disco^/ered Ihat Imageworks — 
its publishing company — had gone bust. My 
question to you is this; how could it happen'' On 
a firvsl note I'd like to ask you if it's possible to 
put the aforementioned classic on Reel Action? 
As Tar as I know, no-one hold? the rights, 
nU Hi* TC inn (iwl), Somawlmr* 
PS it you don't print this The ScDieloid will do 
VERV NASTY naughty Ihings to you and you' 
bananas This rs a threat, 

9 You'll have lo shop carefully to find 
SpMdball — it's been a long time since 1 
*s« given shell space Sadly, ise can t just 
pitt games on Reel Action wilhaul getting 
permission Irom Ihe ficence holder — we 
don I know who currently liolds the rights to 
Speedbatl, so don I eiipect lo see It unless we 
discover who does. II you re wondering why 
I (mapifivD'lis went Oust, It's simple — they 
i aisappeeiod under the wave* In a iKshlon 
I subsequent und not dissimilar to their owner, 
tn* late PoOerl Maivuell. . . 

f wllh threatening 



GOODBYE, iviT 
FRIEND 

Dear Lloyd, 

This IE probably the last time I'll ever write to 
you By the lime you read Ihis, I won't be Ouylng 
COMMODORE FORCE — I am, like so many 
others, going to upgrade 

I'm not one ol those people who wi»jld )usl buy a 
computer |or a console) lor ihe graphics alone. For 
instance, when the Super Nintendo came out, 
everyone dropped Iheti |aws at its 32.000 colours 
and Mode 7 spnte rotation, when C64 owners did 
well enough on 16, 1 was prepared to hold onto my 
C64 lor as long as I could. I was sure it could stand 
up against alt comers. . . 

But then the Sped mm and Amsirads became 
Dt>soiete, and I1 now seems the C64 is fpllowing 
suit — rapidly Take a took at how much software 
was coming out this month lAugust at the time ol 
writing) last year, and the year betore 

Year Games Reviewed Full Pnce 
Budget 

■91 35 m 15 

'92 15 5 10 

'93 4 4 

See how the situation's ctianged' 
We live in a world set towards graphics The 
Amiga 12(K) has 16 7 million colours, over a million 
times more than Iha C6-1. So you can see what Joe 
Soap would want to buy — never mind the price, 
kiok at all those colours' 

I am. In lact, getting an Amiga 1300. bul not for 
its colours — It's fast, supports some stunning 
software arrd appears to be Commodore's new 
llagship machine (they're flogging A600's lor neiil 
to nothing and seem lo be going 32-bit only). Best 
wishes, Lloyd, 



me? That's the second 
time this monthi You 
couldn 't pull il oft 
anyway — James stole 
the Scorelord's super 
space-ship computer 
to plan quick routes 
lo the pub with 
and 




Pawl O'Brian 

• More doom and gloitm. As I've already said, 
there's a limited amount ot software released 
these days, bul a prienornenel antouni already 
available ilyou shop carelully. 

As lor your views on colours, surely people 
conaitler more than that? What alJoul the 
quality of Ihe sound, the availability of 
soltware. Ihe standard of the games? People 
aren't that ttupld. 
IM 



^v.^..:\ 



THE SPUD WRITES 



D«ar Lbycj, 

This IS the ihifO lerter I've wnllen. so please 
prrni It. dude A year ago I t>ough1 a second-hand 
C64, [wo |ov5'i^'^s i^"tJ ten games — Ihe besI oJ 
ihose being Fiimto& Quest II was ihe lirsigama 
I d euej" played on ihe C64 One year on and 
itikngs are improvjng Now I've go\ evcellenl 
games like Cfe&iufss. Arnie. Si!en! Service. 
A'mziiyts. Ifyf/rand many orher classics The 
be^l I've go! since then is your mag. To be 
hjniesl, I owe It ID rny granny I asked her to get 
riH' Commodore F"""T hui ^.Mp iirndiTiiaiivgot 




IP' 

EM>aM, GLOOM AND 
CONDEMNATION 

Dear Lloya, 

I've been a C&4ownei' [and loyat 
ZZAPi/COMMODORE FORCE reafler) toi atmosl 
seven yeais now, but. naving savoO ihe cash, I'm 
geltirtgan Amiga 120Q ThaVs not to say I'll be 
flesanma my 06^4 — tar (lom it. Ttie 100+ litles I 
own liave given ma years ot plaasure, and 
I'm ncl about lo dilch them just like that. ~ . 

I've no dGubl i'il buy Mayhem in 
Monslerfandtatmy C64, but after 
Ihral i tecl^or i'li be saving my casti 
lor things iilte HiiBd Guns ar\il 
SensiDle Soccer lot mf 16-bH bjddy. I 
would nave bougtii '64 Lemmmgs. bul 
nt get Amtga Lemmings 2 instead — I 
tliink Ibe Amiga's belter suited to games 
iike Ifiat, dofi't you'' 

Anyway. I know you'ro above all itie wbining. but 
I've no doubl lliat. should you print this ielter. youTi 
get ioaOs of ieltets compiainmg abnijl what I've 



COMMODORE FORCE instead irflBiebesl 
nii^Liik^ ^f\es Qvei made' Nd^ lorftome quesHons: 
1 } I played Slaitot on Ihe SNES, Wny are there 
no cjrvefl lines'^ 




If by curved lines ^oii mean the absence ot 
Ihe frattnional veclor' grapfiics^ fhaf's Oecause 
Starr>Oir (or Sifuwifg as theotticial English 
leleffse version is know) has graphics made up 
of shtaded polygons. Hope that mattes things a 
bitcfearer... 

2) lAnd whil-: I rn al il, why i& (here no playab^rity'' 



Dear Lord Moontram 

I wasslurk tn a iraffic 
lain iho other day anfl , i 

* "appencfd'^ No go on, ' 
QLifss whai happened ' ._ 
"t ate yoii la/y of sorrieihing'* 
<ti\ QLieaa whai happened'' 
OIt. iOfi slikG thai IS _^ 
if* I wiile jn a lelTef and 
wh3l Qo you do ^ Go 

cn. Skiy whalyou 
-' do'' 0+> lor heauena SJlh© 
yourelhepilB AreyOkJ'^ A'e yOu iT-e pil- 
SlOp kM Itip World Grrind Prm'^ My Thai is >vi 
iici'oinpii^^iuneni Wnaia ii inke fiavtng Formula 1 
L^ais Jiiv<ngover you '^ I sshpdyoii lT c|ut'5'i'>" 



said Weil, toanbcipateiheir rartings up yours, 
you ii^ifispotlera What's wrong wilti having two 
computers? The C64'5 a greal macbine. But in 
terms ol software il's had ils day How many new 
games do you see refaa&ed ibese days'? NafI all, 
tbal's how many Alter Chfislmas, I reckon 
COMMODORE FORCE wort have any reviews — 
simply because Ibere'll be no sollware to review 
Other oornputers aron'i minor demons, eveiyone 
— they're simply other ways ol enjoying youtsell. 
Don'l limit youtseif lo the C64 alone — they say 
ignorarx:e is bliss, but, having read your letters 
pages wilh some of Ihe ludicrous rariirgs 
ol your readers, I'd basically say' il you're 
talking about C64 owrota, then ignorance 

ic sianOetd' On well . 

Perhaps it's just your younger readers. I 
suppose I am a bit long m the tooth al twenty- 
nine, so perhaps I'm not as in touch as \ used to 
be. 

What a long letter! Sorry about Ibat Lloyd I'm 
looking torwan3 10 seeing a response from you. 
Chrl* knirwn, K«il 
PS Don't worry. I'll slrli be buying COMMODORE 



r> sir frvfiics and no DouMnDMn HAr. 

3) What's your lave racer? 

Slunl Car Racer — it's a masterp'eee 

4) t nearly always pay CJ lor your mag n may 

be brill, bul why so deijr^ 

/ always gel paid peanuts tor my 
mir* on each issue. II may be 
renaraing work, bul why so little 
'P^ fmancial comeback? 

5) How do rriaii order companies 
. - manage to sell full-price games ctieaper 
than tbey are in the shops'' 

Less overheads. Shops are 
BItpensive. you kT\i3w..r 

G) Weren t you a bii hard on Sireel 
Rgliief^' I think it's cool 

Ahli. bul II could have been «> 
mucli better, iook al IK' and see what 
I mean. It us Gold had got a talented 
* « V programmmg team working on a 

I cartridge-on/^' Street Fighter 2... who 
knows, il could ha ve been excellent 
I'd just like to leli everyone |usl how onlliani 
Super Sej'moui IS It deserves 100%, Super 
Seyrnnur has Ihe best loading screen ever. 
Super Seymour ^Isa has ibe best music ever,,, 
fad Long live lbeC64' 
John 'Spad' Cratty, Co Watarford, 
Ireland 



What's il like baving Formula 1 cars Onving over 
you' So you're nol going to answer? Well two 
can play al that game (ihe game in queslion 
being chess but lour people can play Ludo'), I'm 
not going lo speak lor tivo years aiartmg irom 
ffom r^ow'TTie trouble is I'm wriling a letter and 
I've now wasled tivo wlmle v«>aJS sitliru) in 
* silence brtKiding I'm now ^onsiderdbty 



oiilni and ii»ve lar((iyton iho addiess lo 
post Ihn iollw lo SWl. you II iieviir guess 
what? No go on. guess. Oh. alter all this time 
you're still not ready lo liokl a conversation Wnli 
go dye your bead Go on. dye it glossy groan and 
pretend 10 be Grolbags m an upcoming 
Christmas onnlomine I bet you live pounOn you 
WO" I. ■ siatker. 
.-: Sick cind lired of bsing sick and tired 
Chii* Hoyward 
Fsnnar Mod Fool of Cominadaf* tar 



FORCE. Your Reel Action cassettes are ruddy 
marveltouG, guys — keep up the good woi k 

• Strong words, Ctiris — while I agree with 
certain points you 've made, is there any real 
need lo condemn loyal CS4 users by naming 
(hem tralnspotters ? Or, lor that mailer, 
accusing them ol Ignorance ? Each computer 
lorrrial has lis strengths, and yes — lo diarniae 
them la a (rWe s(>orf-sr(i<>(ed. As for your 
prediction ot doom and gloom in the C6A 
software market... well, I cant deny inal there s 
a lack ol games on Ihe horiion. However, with 
the CS4 s remarkable ioflware base, is I! really 
the end? i think not There^s so much available 
tt)fOug/i EDOS, mail order or, of course. 
COfAMOOOflE FORCE Reel Action that there 
are games enough lor any user to buy a new 
piece ot safiwaie every week lor Ihe netl two 
years. And, txlore anyone stands to correct 
me, I really don 'I think that llgure 'a lar wrong. 
Everyone feel free to write in and air views, 
though... 



' So you like Super Seymour then? 

As this IS the third time youve written — 
and youve asked a lew inlereallng questions 
— a mystery priiB ia winging Hs way to you 
right now. If we 
thai is... 



r^-^^c0j^-- 




.12 ■ HOVIMMR 1993 



'^~&r 



COMPANY 
COMPARISONS 

Oear LWyrt. 

Rtsi oH ra jusi like 10 sa<i now excelleni 
COMMODORE FORCE Is, esoeciBl'y '"« ganies 
Anyway, I ilioiigW I'd do a ronml-uii of llie mosl 
popular software houses anO whai I ihink oT Itiem, 
Mow about il olhei raadars cnuld do II as welt so 
COUMODOflE FORCE could Have a favounle 
sonware nousas' cdan' Here's my view; 

OCEAN 

Tfiey've given us many a classic gams, and are 
probably the DIggesi soltwste company going. 
However, Itie majonly ol Iheir movie conversions 
nava been plallQrm sdoolers 

B/10 

US GOLD 

They're rasponsiOle lot the conversions ol a fair 
lew a rcada classics, such as Street FigMer^, Uel's 
just say Ifiey don'l do a very goorlioe 

SV9TEM3 

The best C64 software company, otiney were 
— I Ifilnk they've gone bjsl 

9/10 

BEVONO eELIEF 

Honeslly. If Ilia CM marliel Is to gel BeBef we 
iKmt need Ihese guys. 

S/'O 

COD EM ASTERS 

Dijry Seymour. Cjte piaHormers. Dizzy. 
Seymour CulB plallormers. Come on, enough is 
enough,.. 

4/10 

ZEPPELIN 

Loads o( releases, very lew classics. 

4/10 

THALAMUS 

A great company, responsible loi Some of Itw 
test games around — the name Creatures 2 
springs lo mind 

9/10 

MICROPROSE 

The kings ol itie sims 

7/10 

Novi it's quasbons time (please answer -^j- 

thoiti, 83 they're only small) t^ 

^) What's (lappered to Itie iollowing games Fly 
Harder. Dyna Blaslei. Bee 52. fuizball. Mega 
TuHrv, Beavers and Speeaball 2r) 




moan about consoles — the addlUorr of 
queallans a! ihe enO ol II nil p<ii yon back down 
on everyone else s level. Sysrem 3 liai/en'l 
gone busi bf Ihe way — tney re Qoncentratlng 
on SNES B'odticl. ar>d are unlikalf (rtaO. not) 
le conaiOet releasing any more C64 soriwam. 
vSffff but true. 



'PUNY 




I tfioughl you said they were small questional 
Oh v/ell. here goes .. 

Fly Haider Is produced By a foreign company 
who we've hesra nothing Irom since ive 
received the game, so a review's out ol iho 

■ C-FORCt H«.I2 BNOVIMBIK 1993 



I'm nol mad. really I |lis( appear Ihis way lo 
conliise my npriccr^; 
Danlal Owm*y, Klnlal 

• They do look pretty contused.. 
IJM 

Gel some female sialf writers — ttiey'll add se* 

appeal to the mag 

Richard Panoiu, BromtgrvvB 

• We're seJi Incarnate as il is. Any more 
'set appeal and we'll probably be Illegal. 



What 5 Chan Chatter'? I'm confused' 
Js Smifh, Waneitarahin 

• foivVe not the on/yonef Thanli god It's 
tlnlshed... 



question until we know whether it's being 

released, how much It will cost and, 
um, gel another copy ol the game 
Ixcause we've losl our 
original one. Dyna Biasler?/ 
assume that's available at 
retail level. To Ihe best ol my 
knowledge, il was released. H 
you can't tind it. try KIngsolt'S 
aug Bomber — they re very 
similar, but Bomber lias a 
txtter one-player mode. Bee 
52 should be In the shops 
■ ;^^ ; shortly — I couldn I say 
T7 eiaclty ivtien — and 
Fuzzba II 's been out for ages, or 
so I'm laid. Mega Tviins ? Hever 
heard ol it. Beaveis ivon 'I be 
released on the CM, arjd llnally, 
Speedball 2 apparently 
disappeared follouiing the collapse of 
the Maxwell empire that just 
hapftened to include lis publishing 
company. ImagewO'ks. Phewl Is that 
ihe longest In-queslion ansner yet? 

2) Are there any C64 games like 
rj^niendu's Pfoboleclor^ 

I asked SN£S FORCE s Will Evans 
\ihe goth kid — In Joke Edf about 
f'l ciboloctor, and he, being an ex- 
C.ii.isler himsell. recommen/led 
ln:,igine's Gryzor —apparently, the 
fivo games ate very similar, to the 
/MiVii Ol being almost lOeniical in 
r'-^ces. 

3| Horn about putting The Last Hinja 
on Itie covertapes? 
We'll see... 
Keep up tlie good work 
DarHn Langran, Daganbam, Imbx 

• You had to ruin It, didn't youl Altar the 
Interesting start lo the letter — ie you didn 'I 




Deaf Lloyd, 

I used lo own a CIS •« until il packed up from 
over-use I was wondering 11 1 can gel Misfer 
Piiniverse or Stju^rm tot the C64. DeCHLis^ they're 
my lavDurile games. I'd also like to say thai your 
adventure and public domain sedions are rubbish. 

Hope you can help 
Darak l»f, Paafrachwyh, twaniaa 

• Sorry, but I've not seen or hoard anything ol 
Ihe two games you mentioned -— although I 
must say that their names do lend themselves 
to a 'ones to avoid' category or two. Okay, so 
you think out adventure and PD sections are 
rubOlfh, hill you didn I say why. Constructive 
criticism is always welcome, but we do like lo 
Anow where iveVe going wrong — it you don't 
tell us, we can't do anything aoou! II. hmm7 
Oh, congratulBllons — your signature Is the 
wore! one we've seen other than Miles'. To 
come even close ts an achievement and a halt. 



'All good Hiingi muit 
come to vn end'. Who 
was it who said that? 
Whoever did deserves to 
have a toilet roll shoved 
up their nose, as it's a 
particularly depressing 
thought. 

Sure, it's the end of 
Mangram's Mailbag for 
this month, but next 
issue's letter-orientated 
section is mere weeks 
away from being with 
you. And as my father 
said, 'the anticipation of 
iiavlng something is 
almost as pleasurable as 
the actual having' — 
obviously, that doesn't 
apply to P45'5, so I'd 
itotler stop my drivelling 
now. Send your letters — 
be they big, small or 
oddly-shaped — to 
Mangram's Mailbag, 
Impact Magazines, 
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okay, so the Diary of a 
Game feature's been 
going for a while now, 
but this is most definitely 
a first — a double-game 
diary. Jon Wells — 
programmer of Sceptre of 
Bagficfad and our very 
own Caty livBS ^ is 
currently writing two 
potentially excellent 
budget games — Escape 
from Arfh, and City 
Somber. Perhaps we'd 
better let him tell you 
about it himself-. 



This particular diary's slightly diftetent lo Ihe 
ijsjal. Wtiy'' Well, simply because It'll (ealiicB 
two games instead ot ore — phew! All 
programming, graphics and sound eftecls ate 
beinfl done by myseH — Jon — vvirti music by Paul 
Hannay. also known as The Faekzold. 

I always start my games wrth the grapbics as 
Bf.. what am I saying. I haven't even ajiplained the 
initial Ideas ye|i So, (irst we start with the game's 
design and ideas. Ona ot these, Escape From Artlt, 
IS already hall-completaa. the other's Criy BoTiber 
wtilc^ we're ius1 starling 

firm's a run-around tlick-scraen shoot-'em-up set 
In a maze Irom which you musi find means ot 
escape, twiora the plane! explodes '^ou take 
control Dt two difterenl robots called Volo and Veti. 
CHyBon^:. on the other hand, lea horizontally 
scrolling bomB-'em-up. The idaa ol ihis (II you 
haven't already guessed) is to destroy Ihe cilles on 
progressively tricky levels. The neat ihlngs alwut 
this one IS that it'll include simultaneous iwo-player 




action, with last parallai scolling and teatunng 
loads ol new colours never before seen on a l^^f 
Ann IS Hick scrolling, with each screen neat lull 
size. There are going to be over 50 screens 
altogether, and at that size 1 just can't plonk them 
in the memory one after Ihe olher. as Id only lie 
able 10 fit about 62 screens into 64k — what a 
waste ol memory. No. instead a screen editm is in 
order, so each screen can be compacted or 
Tetneved Irom memory 




This is where the first part of the progfammmg 
came in, 10 create an otiject editor This little baby 
enables us lo make the ditfetent pieces of 
background graphics needed to build up each 
screen, trees, doors, buildings etc. Each one can 
then be stored separately m memory I use Dalel's 
Action Replay to do all my coding on. 'Aaarrrtihh!' I 
hear you mumble, but seriously, a lot of 
prtjgramrners seem to criticise Ihe old Action 
Replay, saying it's almosi impossible to code with 
Sure Its difficult at first, but once you gel to grips 
with It you can produce slulf pietly quickly, believe 
mel 

Anyway, where was I . oh that's it — at Ibis point 
I could start on sorrte background graphics to lest 
the editor I always do Itie graphics n' sprites on 
Firebird's Graphic Editor, as 
this allows you lo lest Ihem 
on-screen Once I'd done a 
lew test graphics 1 Iried 
them in the editor and 
everything worked hne 
Now I must do the actual 
Screen Editor. This allows 
us to plot each object on a 
defined screen, building the 
picture bit by bit |u5t like in 
Rainbow (though personally 
I don't watch II!) You know 
— the part where a sketch 
Is made with big chunks 

or... 

Once a screen la made 
you can slore It with the 
touch of a button The 
editor took a couple of 
weeks lo construct but it's 
all finished now, and was 




wall worth itl One good Ifiing that's corns out ot all 
this IS that I can use it with tutute games — good 
ehf The background graphics have been drawn, 
albeit naughty at the moment ~ III update Ihem 
later Some graphics Include large Iranstorrners 
and vanous other etectncal pipelines which should, 
hopefully, look quite neat once updated. Usmg Ihe 
editor lo build the backdrops was a doddle, and a 
lot quicker than by hand — all were completed in 
two four hour stints over the keyboard And that's 
not all — memory- wise, the screens only take up 
aboirt 6li and lamBmlMr, thera's well over 501 

Vote Sprite for 
President^,. 

I've now started an the sprites lor Arlh These are 
comprised ot the 'Z' robots. Vote the male robot 
and Vetl the girlyl The base frames of each tobol 
are Ihe same, apart from Vali's head, aporting long 

llowing heir as she runs. One problem I had 
was witli shooling. When the player lires a 
laser normally, it zooms straight across the 
screen, but It you just hapiMh to be aiming 
upwanj then it needs to bend into a 45- 
dsgree angle as it goes. For this I I'lad lo 
constrLict iwo laser style sprites — Ihe 




• Escape From Arth, thougti why you mhould want to I don-l 
know — nica, blua sky and wtMt an allractiva Irea. 



■ C-fOBCINa.ia BNOViMBIR I 99 J 



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wnh lell and nghl hre, the second Alth up left and 
up nghl. 

And now lor ihe enemies — afler all, whal's a 
game without ir>e enemies' I had a few ideas lor 
thesa, bul iot the morr>ent I've opled lor Itie 
lollowing: Roboi flroid (Qnijnd mover), Hobol ball 
[bouncy bouncy!), HFO 1 (Low tlyar) anO RFO 2 
(High llyer) Tne Robot Objects will also be able 10 
lire random twist miESiles, so with tneEe in mind I 
sat to worti crBanng ihemi 

fNJow thai rt>B ma|orilv oT spntes and 







backgroLinUio ^n. i^oiip-ijled itsltmo id stan pufiing 
IhlngB togeTher. The main part's the screen and 
player deTBction rouEines — The conirols go 
something like ihi^, joysiick left and right lo move, 
down lo enter a passageway and jp lo shool 
t>eam laser Also \i you push op and lelt or r^hl 
when you lire, the lasei will bend and ?oom 
upwards. 



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collisions come nejd as each 
screen musi De Nnked together and we don't want 
Ihe pLayer walking thrcjugh impas^ble welts now, 
do we'' Once this is over the fun begins. It's all 
siarting to take shape now, and getting rnore 
playable iVe pjl the baddjes in buE at Ihe moment 
Ihey re-appear when you leave and re-enter the 
room — a random enemy routine is needed to sorl 
Itie oui This will be programmed in lalef' 

Enough ot ArJh lor now — I Ihink Its aboul time I 
got Eterled on some City BomOer work! 



UJES SCORE 
IIPIl OflOOOO 



SCOK 
ADOOOO 



Get Bombed... 

As this is a horizontal scroller, a new style or editor 
IS needed- Each city will be at teast six screens m 
kengih and one high, so bearing I his (n mjnd I've 
come up with a cunning idea' I could build 30 
levels out ot five normal levels of scrolling memoiv 
The llrst five Levels would Ihen be one screen long, 
levels SIX to ten would be the same as Ihe first live 
bol two screens and so on. up lo six screens 
Using ihis lechnique I can make hundreds of levels 
in small amounts ol rnemory? 

First I must program the new Object EdUor only 
this lime there's going Eo be a restriction on the 
SI ^e of each object Allha 
most buildings and other 
happenings can be no bigger 
Ihan a r^ aire characters gnd, 
bui bigger buildings can 
always be linked together with 
two or more e<ghl-by-eighl 
objects. More lesl graphics 
were then drawn io utilise this 
before sorting out the 
scrolling rou lines. Eventually I 
got a small demo up and 
running Each character can 
be rite rally any colour, as tlie 
scroller scrolls the character cofours as well. The 
screen is now updated every 50lh ol a second, 
with all scrolling inlaci and the scroll data Iwlng 
grabbed from a large wide window stored in 
memory The gooci thing about using this effect is 
that I can 
make (he 
screen scrolJ 
at almost any 
speed As an 
example, most 
games run ai 
1 or 2 pixels 
every SOlh — 
as in SEUCK 



TlrtEltWI 
qqq mi 




• BombB aw»y! I'm not 
loo sure about tha AthicaJ 
angle on Ihib ane — 
bombing ciuiliariA in their 
homas- Still, it 'A lun! 

games — but in City 
Bomber I can make it scroll 
atB. 16.64, 128 pixels 
every 50th or even faster If I 
wish' At these speeds, the 
screen scrolls so fast that 
you can't even keep up with 
It' Well, I couldn t anyway 

It won't surprise you then 
if I tell you that there's 
definitely going to be a 
speed option on the title 
screen so e^/erybody can 
wFlnessEl^e incredible 
pace. . 

Remember fhr^se new colours I was on about 
earlier' TheC64 has iG colours normally, right? 
Wrong! Using a special technique which I call 
RASTER COLOUR f^lXlT^G (RCM Tor short), you 
can have a possible 58 different colours {yes. 5BIJ 
on screen at once, and m any character colour In 
Ci!y Bomber, though, welt only be using aboul 
30 Now ihe scrolllngs sorted IE'& time to work on 
ihe parallax effects These consist of the 
mountains, trees, hills and buildings which lorm 
the landscape behind Ihe main city, but scrolling 
slightly slower. After this ere the clouds of day- 
time and stars lor night Altogelhar there's now 
li^e layers of parallax 
and it looks quite neat. 
The top and bohom 
borders have also been 
opened with the score 
and lime limits at Ihe 
bottom, and the rest of 
the play area {which now 
looks huge) at Ihe top 
I've just managed to 
finish The first player's 
ship and it's alt moving 
aboul fine' 



Slay luned until next 
month, when we'll see 
the completion of Ihe City 
Bomber londscape editor, 
the in game music/eHecIs 
and maybe, just maybe, 
the completion ol both 
games (And a coverlape 
demo or two, Jon? — Ed). 
Bv*l 



■ C-FORCINo.13 bNOVIMUR 1 993 




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^1 HiEELUOOOOOO 
^1 EVERYBODY — lis me, the 
^Kl n«w Tipsier. For verily I 
liave wanquislied the foul 
beast Hayward and nowr tit 
prowd upon his throne, 
master of ali the tips i survey- 
How proud to occupy my rightful 
place at last. It seems little more 
than a month ago I sat marvelling 
at the thought of a whole section 
to myself and yo know what? it 
was only a month ago — crikey! 
^ So a new era's 

in 



.dawned upon 



the the fabled COMIHODORE 
FORCE tips department. 
Strangely, some people seem 
to think I'm some kind of 
power-crazy megalomaniac 
obsessed with personal 
advancement no matter «vhat 
the cost to anybody else. Not 
true! I have utmost regard for 
\ the opinions of others, and anyone 
' doubting my honourable intentions 
^ shall be dealt with very severely. 
Anyway, on that light note I decree 
the world's greatest tips festival 
^ pp»n for bosJBOss once more. 



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Irtcky to gel mio We" no longer neea you lose any 
sleeo aver inougnis ol the oiru We'D" anO nis 
(! sties overrunning our lair oianet Jusliieep Itiis 
CDirtprervansive aofuli^n EO ^and. and you'll see 
rtim of in no Trme 

GENERAL PLAY 

Tim* w o( (he nsence. Vou nave twenty-live 
minutes to compleTe ttw game and believe me 
you II need eve^ second Avoio coniai:: witn Treen 
guards •! at all posscle For one Wing. ligtilLng 
uses up lime and secondly, you II r>eed as muoti 
eneigy as possiDie lor your confrontation »i{n Wie 
mighty Mekon Sometignts howeue' a^e 
unavoidaoie Snouid you need to partake in a 
scuWe lie Oesi method is lo noid aoivn tire with 
the lOVStiCk PuifieO up m me direction ol your 
opponeni Dan aiII repealeOiy puncn lo the nead 
A line eneigy may Oe lost Out that s unavdOaUe 

UNDERQROUNO COMPLEX 

On enieiing tne Treen l^ase you'll linO youiseff 

onagantri Aith inree ladders Cnmb oov.i anv 

• C-rORC( M«.t 3 NOVIMBER I 993 



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Dm Dl tfKMa anO walk left tnrough Die open doot, 
Rght the Treen guard ana you should get puss 
card Opsnjne doo' on the leti using It^e crowDai 
and walk through' Fight it^e Treen 'or another card 
Now go down the ladoer and through me lower 
right □cx>r avoiding it^e guaTd down the ladder 
through lett door and hghi the Treen Go ihiough 
leh doo'. down the ladder mvough ngnt ooor down 
again and ngtri Frghi the Treen then go down and 
lett and you should Be in a ceN room Open tne cell 
Ooor using a pass card and tight the Treen inside 
to rescue the prolesso' 

Neit go right up I ne ladder through leH 
aoof where you 'e conlronied Dy a 
locked door Open it using a pass ana 
enter There s no iignis m here so use 
the torch to find your way apoul Go 
down the laddei Downagair^dhd 
open DigOy E cell with a pass Fighi ' 
theTreenjnsiaetofree him Then back 
up into It^e ilaTK room and Keep going leti 
'til you reach ifie laser 

NB — itat any poiill you lindyOuyerun 
out ot pass ^rgs find a Treen guarO and 
tight him Most will tumish you Ail" one ot 
these use'ui items when oetealeo 



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Th« (st/rlace tfi Ihv p^nel unhl yau arnve un a 
>Cr«<eri wtth a Treen parrodJng |l0CfllKjn twu) T'l^i 
<)ix:k down ihe opori haich lo avoid lighTing him 
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boir^nni of the lackJer until yoj r« (n Thq wutfir Ihfin 
tefi and l-ui uTI IEig reedB Use reeds as a bnoiksl \o 
swinri lefl iinlil a mes^ge pope up lolhn^ /Ou 
VCHJ've hil sornnlhing Pick il up — }inyo, il'fl n 
croMvbarl Now aMm righl (o locatian «>gM and < ~ ~ 



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Vou Bhixiia b*? in iJjTfliiO" one wjTh a 

heifh 10 Ihfi led Open ihts using Ihe 

c;iawDar and go down Walk lell to find yourself jo 
the fTiBin ciiue comple* 

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The branch ^en reTurn lo 14 and us« i{ To open Hi? 
HalGhfMselijcinriedsovoucflnl ^^^ IhH fnelal 
ciuwbar wilHioui gahing fra^rieii)r 

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Ion-hand vine Tie 4t anio The fighi and cUinb dc>wn 
Open Ihe hatch Ihenwalk nghi and ci^llecMhe Injit. 
rr level Of locallon ten and 



ffHwvlhflffirtithfCTighfhe narrow pBp Slrfpi^ will 
TeT(.-Ii It af>i3 relurn Dea/ing Ihe torch - WhHl ^ fi^lpful 
fellow 

Go bfldilolrto vine room flocalion l^jandiJown 
TTiohdTchyou oponadoariier TM room's bladi so 
lum on th» lorth Get lf»o o« can Iro/n thi» *>tjtTum lotl 
ot Lhe v;r(Hfn i^^ yo f^'-k i^p and r^ht arrobs Ihe 
jQp plHflOrm into room tfiwhflre y^Jullfind another 
halch use Ifie Oil on it ihon pull ri open and t.1\fvO 
OOWn. You'll lind your^ll in the Treen base On 
roomfiveiheteHer A oxri wrll take to Ihe A on ruorn 
14 




HAZE OF 

See dlagrBni below 
Remembef — the tarmrnals 
must be destroyed in 
numencal order /Mign Ihe 
appropriate rnirrors then go 
back and press Ihe button 
Afler the Lbird compuier i5 
destroyed Ihe door jusi 
below il and to Ihe fefl will 
open Thiaieads inlo the 
Mekon's lair 



a 



ICONS 1 




Laser 
Cannon 




+ 


Button 
Terminal 1 
Tei-minal 2 
Terminal 3 
Mirror 




Ladder 



THE MEKON 

Vou need lo hil IhB oi/il one wlifi ten bombs 
(back ' lirej bul Be sli* lij avord tiis laser OoKs - 
he can l bil you when yours a1 Hie tai rigtii 

To complete fie -- - — 
game you musi 
feiiirr> lo The screen 
you staned on Hey 
preslo — yel again 
Dan has saved [ha 
Universe Wbal a 
bloke! 




e-fORCf No. I a NOVEMBER 1993 



KEYCARDS 

1 Coded tards lo opt-n 
I doors Don l worry abOUT 
I gening Ihem in ar>v ordor, 
I as any card urikxlfs any 
I daw Vou can carry as 
many aayou want. 



I BOMB 
iPrlmad) 

When aclivaieO ttie 
bomb will look liKe 
tniE. 



BOMB 
(Unprimedl | 

I To opon ihe iflvel emt vou 
[ need to find all seuen 

I de1onalor5 Ishii^vn by a 

ri?d ^rrow) Walkover 
! therrt to aciivflle Uiem. 



eve him or loathe him, you just can't 

ignore that Infernal Hulk of Hogan. 
loud, brash, arrogant and peroxide blond — but enough about James. 
Allow your eyes to grace upon this juicy map and solution to level two. 



PiHWHFt 




ROBOT TRAOt 

Patrol roD0l5 cari only 

iravel on Ihese trnckflr 
Unlortunalflly the 
Hulksters feeF ^liok to iT. 
mFianing ha's unable lo 

■■ Weif (11 the edge 
!'i^ roboMu'ns p|s 

, -l-.cn .limp piQliinrl If 



! ROBOTS 



■ ■■ ihe slide kick lo 
! -.■^ ol Ihese. They 

' ' I H fecial track \a run 
■' infl won'l sense you 
ii:^" yr,u stand on il 



I ENERGY 

Tops yoljr frneigy tar up 10 

nRxin'-irn 



t C^rOKCI Na.l 3 NOVf MBER I 943 




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I FLYING 
ROBOTS 

Bsanng a siariling 

resemblance 1o 

hamDurgers, these liltle 

nasliesare beat 

awotded One© scrolled 

□fif screen They woni 

roHlQW you unless you 
I rairace your srepB Jusi 
I remember where (hey 



i 



One punch will 
I do 'em, bul 

move quickly. 
I They have 

rmjlthd^recUonal 

fire and an 

annoying abilily 

To shooTth rough 

walls and 

dosed doorfi. 



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END OF 
LEVEL 
I GUARDIAN 

I Vouirtinal adversary Tu 
beatr him. wait until he 
lumps then jump away, 
duck down and use iTie teg 
sweiep Onlv pijni:h in an 
emaryancv as j1 leaves 
you open li ..ri . i 



■ C-rORCE No. I 3 NOVEMBER 1 993 




REEL RESET FRUITBANK ROBOCOP 2 



I of only do ag give yoi-i the hoflesl 
fraebies in tho known universe, bul we 
hetp you 10 beal em as well, or ai LeaEi 
Aihorlon's Cad DK;km3Qn does. Here are f»s 
sBlecCiOn of leset pokes for some of Ihose 
cower Classics — Carl, you''© on. . 
HoJIdsy ^None;>Cops 1RA7] 



POKE 21600, 9B 


IndeBltuctlbllity 


SVS 16965 




Arlura (RA9) 




POKE SaO'0, 96 


Inlinile energy 


SVS 32768 




Blue Encounter (RA12) 




POKE 21600, 96 


Irdeslnjctlbilily 


SVS 1696S 




Frantic (RA14I 




POKE 20224, 96 


Ifidnlle energy 


POKESeaai. '73 




SVS 491 52 




Brll (RAM) 




POKE 71 11. 173 


Inllnlte Balls 


SVS 4300 




Tracer (HA 14) 




POKE 4552, 1?3 


lives 


POKE 4680, 173 


Freeie Hme 


POKE 5iM. 


lr>dHS(ructlbllity 


SVS 28672 




Ine 1 . ■' .-■ ideprBsenteol anadlOFi 


leiji.i ' inyou 


magwrw ,. 


M.A.I. 




POi 


Irdaslrurtifjilily 


Park F' . 




pi- . 


Inlinile lives 


B»ni(i . 




Pi." 


Inllrtfie energy 


Bluet Bidil«rk iRAI 7) 




POKE lUSO, 189 


ln^^llo livn 


^nnH 



STORY 



1 



~ ~ everielJl be said wedon'l aamilwhen 
we're wrung, because we never are — 
WFjtI. nor Dflen anyway [cougri — ~ "" 
Unlorliinrtlely a tjrave error appeiirerl in I 
muni lis Ufis wriicn I shall now endeavoi» 
letlily Rememner a spiffy lilUe cheal fof 
^ealanit SlDiy Well Iheie was a small e 
bul nnl in the crieai iiself — it woiKs finai 
you're playing Stndet* Thai's right — Iw" 
NZScheal 15 inlacta Slnitorcheal Soi 
thai Howovei. to avad any Kiwi-catamll 
here's Alei Jolltfe's listing tor the 
alofemenlioned. and il works, honesl ., 

, REM NZS CHEAT BV ALEX JOLtFFE 

FORX^384T0413 REAOy 
CiC*V . POKE X. V NEXT 
IF - 3156 THEN PRINT -DATi 
ERROR- END 
POKE 157, 12H .SYS 384 
DATA 032, 066, 245, 169. 032 
084.003 

DATA 169. 147, 141,085, 003 
001. 141 
DATA 086. 003, 096. 072, 1 "' 



■ e^onei Na.ia November (993 



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ello Pal rick Neecthsni from 
ShrawsEury, lii. alngW Ves 

everybody, il's IhB lum of the g 

as he shares vvlth us hie cheat for ihal 
inouGOl arcade adventures — f 
Ihe Norse LegendE levels onv-a 
"1 anil l?l simuManeouslii lo' tuH 




NIGHTSHIFT 

— Ilhs Beast with the least giving you grief? 
Take heart my tiiena, for here are some 
posBwonts to access later levels (namety 1 1 )o 



1 1 BANANArt'lNEAPPLE/CHERflY/PLUM 

15 CHEHRY/PLUMB/BANANA^LUM 

PLUM/CHER RY/BANANA/PINEAPPLE 

PINEAPPLE/C HEHRV/PLUM/BANANA 

PLUM/PLUM/PINEAPP LE/P INEAP PLE 

BANAN A/BAN AN AfP INEAPPLE/ 

BANANA 

BANANAff'LUM/CHEHRV/ 

PLUM 

PLUWLEMON/ 

LEMON/PLUM 

LEMON/ 

PINEAPPLE 

CHERRV/PLUM ' 
CHERRY/ 

PINEAPPLE/ 

PINEAPPLE/ 

CHERRY 
Gadzool<s — all this talk 
ol Iruil leaves me 
siranoely ill at ease... 



'SHl^T 



IS — nol leasl Robocop 2 
' Gray Dl Cheltenham's gol Iho game well n' 
ked and lias a lillte tip for lesser mortals out 
Ai the EtBft ot level live, go to the lell edge ot 
reen anO pult down oh iha loyslick lo onlei a 
slidey-puzzte sub-game Complete i1 and 




[Today the lips section, 
tomorrow the woridt 

I Hayward's ceiumn is truly 
mine, that and all it 
contains. Of course the 
process of domination 

I weaves a meandering 
course of which only time 
will tell. Nevertheless, 

I one day COMMODORE 
FORCE shall be in my 

I hands and then... who 
knows? James is loo 

I powerful at the moment 
b«l I mean to bring down 
his tyranny from within 
^ tips are merely the 
beginning. To aid In my 
preparation I urge you, 
my followers, help me 
grew strong. Bestow 
upon me ravenous 

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might grasp my destiny. 
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You'v* heard of 
Shakespeare's Twelfth 
Night — well this is 
COMMODORE FORCE'S 
Twelfth Issue! Yes, that's 
1 2 months trouble- 
shooting and 
problem-solving for 
all of our loyal 
readers. Let's gel 
those moll socks 
emptied and those 
bad tempers put 
away... help has 
arrived! 



msm 



G'DAY SPORT 

Dear Brian. 

1) Ho* car 1 find cheals (or infinite Sme and 
energy on games Willi my Aclior Replay carl? If 
I can'l, how does Vie Tipster find them' What 
hardware/software Ooes tie use? 

2) Is <t possible 10 inserl youi awn sprues inlo 
games and flelele (he orginal ones' 
R»b Oraan, Vittorln, Awitralla 



• Lei 9 c/eB' wilf) these problems one al b 
lime.. 

1) You can use (he POKEflNDER ol youi 
Aaltm Replay cart. II the time O' energy im a 
value leas than 2SS, lollow inis prixeduta, 

I) Slart the game 

uf Press trie carl bultor}. eiiter 
POKEFINDER and lype In the value ol Me 
tirne/energy as a number. 

Ill) flesume ine game, lose some lime or 
energy 

Iv) Re-enter POKEFINDER. and eofer the 
new value ol the time/energy. 

v) II everything's gone to plan, yousTiould 
now have Inllnlte time/energy. 

What the cartridge does Is search the 
memory tor ell locations containing the 



current value twhicti 
you entered) and the 
locations that 
change II. It also 
keeps a list ol the places 
Its laund. When you go 
back a second lime, it 
checks that list ol locations 
to see II they hold the new 
value. II one does, then II 
altera tbe instructions to 
atop It decreasing the value 
ol time/energy and tells you 
3 location in memory to 
Change the netf lime you 
want to cheat. By the way, 
the Tipster gets his POKES 
tjy getting v^ell-meaning 
readers to do all his ivor* 
tor him, belore sitting back 
and taking all the cfedltl 

3) I could tell you. Out h'd 
be breaking copyright rules 
(really? — Ed). II seems 
unlalT loo, alter 
programmers and graphic 
aniala have sweated tilood 
to tiring you those 
aplrttes... 



LOADSAPROBLEMS! 



f Dear Bnan, 

Howdo 1 display a screen while a mem program 
is being loaded in BASIC What lines do I reed lo 
add 10 ilie progiatn? I nave programs on tape — 
will I need Id re-numbs r Ihem'' 
All Hill, Lilian, ■•4f«dshl» 

# This Is a common question, so a more 
advanced version ol this technlQue wilt be 
appearing it) machine code In the near tuture. 

Add the lolloviing lines to a BASIC program 
— it will display a mesaage anywhere on 
screen other than r»ie top sit lines. 

GSDOO 
P'RINT[HOMElLOA0"CHBS(3a)"PR0GRAM'CH 

FIW34r. 1" 

■ e-FORCl Na.l3 ■ NOVIMBim 1993 



S«I10 
POKE631.19:POKEe32.13 

GS030 
POKE631,BZ:POKE632,117:PO 
KE633.13 

65030 POKE1 98,5: END 

i^Hof displaying the screen. 
GOTO 6500O Villi load 
■program' from tape la RUN II 
automatically by storing 
characters in the keyboard 
butler. Clever isnt It f Make 
sure that PLAY is pressed 
t>elore you GOTO this routine 
or it won t vmrk properly. 
Bria> 



Dear Brian, 

1 ) I nave Ined fornialting Maiwell M02>D disks wim Itia 
[Commands pnnlBd m Issue Sn, Out tne dnve slops atlei a few 
seconds and flashes its error light Have Itiey Been prDperly 
lormatiefl'' 

2) I cannot save my work Irom fi^ini OHice 2 onto inese di6l<s. ii 
just comes up with save lailefl Is Ibare somstning wrong with my 
disk drive? 

3) Where can I got pnnler ribbons lor my MPS BQ3 dot matrix 
piinle'^ 

Robarl Tile, Sonifl where 

• Here ive go again.... 

1 1 Try entering this command: 

OPEN 15.8,15, "NO DISK.AA ■:CL0SE15 

//(hat doesn't work, make sure the write protecl notch on 
the right-hand side ol the disk is open, and you re mserting the 
disk with this notch on the right. 

2) II the command in Issue 
Sri Of (Me one ado re 
aoesn't work, the disk Isn't 
properly lorftiatted and 
Mini OHice 2 cannot save 
to It. II you re absolutely 
certain something is still 
wrong. I suggest you 
check out the adverts and 
lind a repair company. 

3 Coii(ac( OmnlOale 
Supplies who ' 

advertise regularly 
in Commodore 
Force: they 
have MPS 
801 and 
803 

ribbons 

available. ■ ^ 

Bri 



never tame 



MACK. 
CODE 





Dear 8nsn, 

1)M¥ daO bouBtii me Power Cart ridga — ii has 
a monilor Is Ihis a suilaOle assem»ei lo wnle 

2) How long would you think n would take for a 
14-year-old lo learn machine cede? 

3) HoA do you expect overseas readers ir> 
enclose a Eelf-addressed envelope'' Send a 
cheDJolor 33p (hiaha)'' 

JahnnHiaii Kobaftoan, Victoria, 
AuilTalla 

1 ) you can US9 the A (assemOle) tunellon of 
the monllot, but to wrila a game It's not 



suitable. Far etample. Lemmings laliesupover 
5000 lines ot machine code and would take you 
hours lo enter and check A proper assembler 
(though ditticull lo gel hold ol) Is essenlial. You 
could even buy a crosa-developmenl tyslem 
tram a games company..... 

2) Long enough to shorten your temper, and 
yet short enough lo keep you locussed on your 
goal... it just depends nho you are, and how 
much you wani lo learn. 

3) Ever heard ol InlemBllonal Reply Coupon 
or Postage-Paid Envelopes? Ask at your local 
post otlice. 



THE NINJA WITH 




Daar Prot. 

I've wnller lo you because I want to solve my 
biggeal progrflmming problem everi I'm making a 
split-screen routrne with data lines, and a raster 
cobjr routine with data lines 

The problem us that rt reads in 1h« wrong DATA 
and gives a DATA error Please help mei 

I liked that Music Cassade listing in Issue Eighi 
Do you know ol a piogram that would give belter 
quality? Would a sound sampler give belter 
qualEty? 

Do you know o( any routine lo 'oimat triore 
blocks on disk'' 
Kay 'Tlia Hlaio' Ammarn, Narwoy. 

• Take a deep breath, open your ears and 
listen carelully..... 
Arrange your DATA Unas In the tallowing 



orOer, 

DATA linea tor ttie split- 
screen 
DA TA for the colour 
routine 

DATA tor other things (sprites elc.) 

Now, before you READ any DATA, enter a 
line thai says RESTORE (not the key!). This will 
tell the computer to point lo the first item ot 
DATA, 

Natt use a FOR NEXT loop to READ in the 
split-Bcreen data, eg; 

FOR T=0 TO amount ol data 

READU 

POKE local Ion +T.LI 

NEXT 

Repeal this for the colour rouHne ami the 
ollm DA TA, reading in exactly the right amount 
of DATA lor each. This should 
cause you no 
further problems — 
every time you 
run the program \ 
It'll ■=■ 

reaiy 
In the 



Don't panic — I'll be bock nexl 

monfh with more fun and 

informative ways to use 

your Commodore. 

Bwt no hacking into 

mainframes and 

starting global 

thermenoclear war 

while I'm away, 

please. 

Write to me at: 



%ol 



A> 



Dear Piol, 

1 ) Can I use my C6d and modem to send 
laies? 

2) How do you display somalhing while 
loaaing? 

3) Can I convert my CW to a portable 
compoler'' 

4) Can you attach a hard disk to lbs CE47 
KJnd regards 

Fillp Norrgard, Vaasa, flnlvnrf 

Ves. its inlernBlional month here on 
Brian's pages... 
In numerical order, ttie answers ere. 
1| Maybe a fax machine would Be easier? 
2} See Ihe neit letter 

3) Possibly, but it would weigh a lot 
Commodore made a portable C64, known as 
the SX64. complete with disk drive and S- 
inch colour screen. It sola lairly well (are 
you sure about thai. Brien? — Ed), but then 
Ihe novelty wore oft and people were ielt 
with aching arms 

4) Ves. but they're very expansive. See 
Lloyd s eofunin in Issue Five for the address 
of a German company who can help.. . 

By Ihe way Ihe title ol this letter means 
Philalely (stamp-collecting) is an inleresling 
hobby' and comes from the post-mark on 
Fillp s letter .. YAWH' 



data properly. 

As tor sampling, mosi sound samplers will 
give you a tjetter quality of sound tl>an Mualc 
Cassette, and if you're clever you can uae Ihe 
samples in your own programs. 

Finally, you re sluck with 6464 blocks an a 
IWr disk. It a possible lo create more, butltie 
disks become difficult to use — its not worth 
the bother, if you ask me... 



VotessorBrianStrain, 

commodore Force. 

impact Maga»n««' 

Ludlow ^-vRllW. 
Shropshire^VSl;^ 



■ e-PORCI Na.l 3 ■ NOVIMUR 1 9«3 




*• 

the year 
winds down and the 
number of shopping days 
to Christmas reduces, the 
man in the turban is 
hack! It's Professor Brian 
Strain with another 
tutorial on the vray to 
understanding how 
games are written. 
Having delved deeply 
(oo-er!) into sprites, it's 
time to wrap up that 
topic and proceed onto 
something elsOw 



THTSPRITE 

DATA 

POINTERS 

We've meniionod tfia spnw data ptMnier in 
(Heinous leasone, it tells the oompulat 
wliere in memofy lo look for the numbers 
Thai make up a sprite Ot course, wilh eighl spntss 
Ittara are eight locailoh^. Howavef . becau&a ct [he 
VIC chip's OoBigr^ we can onl/'iook' at lek of 
memoiy at a time when we're dealing with 
graphics The sprite rlata poi'niers are localed after 
the screen memory [*tirchcaobe moved) For 
f^nvj. we'll floal wilh how la locate your apnie'£ i:faia 
Atien yfju Nike tLim on tand wilhoul hLjndreds ot 
aitra POKEs) 

When ¥011 llrsi turn on, the VtC chip Is looking' 
aiiheiirsl 16k ol momorylrom locations to 
16383 Screen m»niory Is 8t 1C24 10 MB3 |B total 
0( lOQO tjyieil piikI lh« tihsruoter snt Is Itie tuill-m 
on» 

Totlnflthe sprltadala poiniars, la«o tho slari of 
5;ieen momorv, add lOIB and you'll tlnfl the 
^rirtrflifi 1^1 in^ llrsi prtiniHr 

iiriryisnt 1024, spnle 
al 

1 work out wnai nufriDers lo pul into IfiB <I3I» 
pc>inlert, you nned to know the addrflt^ you £lore 

C-roRCIHa.l9 NOVIMSCR l««3 



the dala for a aprlla's image This is particularly 
Imporlant if you're animating sprites, caused by 
changing the data pointer to show a series of 
images {In Ehe same way as lelevision and films 
are a senes of images). Again, tiers Is an eiample 
ol working oul where lf>e sprite dala is in memory 

Suppose you have three spntes you wish to 
display, each of Ihem a single frame' 

The data for the first is storeQ al 12288, the 
second al 12352 and the third at 12416. 

SpntB reeds to be the lirst spnie m memory, 
so we'll need lo POKE Jocalion 2040 

airlles are stored as a blodi ol 64 hytes in 
memory (the 64th b/te is not displayed), so we can 
U5e the formula 

NM=lcKauon divided by 84 where NM will be Ehe 
number lo POKE mio 2040 
So, we poke 2040. 12288/64 which equals 192 
As Ihe nenE Iwo sprites are stored consequently 
in memoiy, we know the second will Be NM=193 
and Ihe third NM=1B4 (Since they are 64 and 128 
byles onwards respectively, increasing NtA by i 
and 1). 
We could animale by selling a loop like litis. 
100FORT=192TOie4 
110POKE2040,T 

120 FOR DELAY=1 TO 100 NEXT DELAY 
130 NEXT T 
140 GOTO 100 

Tills would change spnte Irom Ihe first to the 
second lo Ihe third image and repeal Ihat cycle I'll 
leave you lo work oul how lo program an animfllion 
where you go forward and Ihen backward through 
a series ol 'frames'. 

The sprrie dala locations can only hold a number 
between D and 255. This means there are 255 
possible apnie Irames' between locations and 

I63B4. 
However. 
Ihe 

compuiei 
uses 
much ol 
Ihis area 
lo store 
BASIC 
liiiogisms 
and 

Imporlant 

inioimalion (mtludingihe screen). I suggest yoii 
NEV£FI store sprues belnw B1921aB|iriledala 
Iiomler number of ija) Evan ihQfl BASIC 
programs can gocverlMs, sobecarelui- 

If you only need one or Iwo sprites al a lime, you 
can »toie Ihem in tho CASSETTE BUFFER This is 
located at locslions 828. to 1019. giving room lor 4 
sprilesiPOKE ilie sprite data pointer with 13. 14, 
IS or 16) Sul this area will tie overwiJilen if you 
ai:c;ess tape o> disk, so don't use 11 II you'll b* dotng 
any loading or saving 




KEEPING IN 
CHARACTER 

So 'ar tn this serhes (and il you're na\ a 
regular reader, save up for Ihe back 
issuesi) I've covered spnie« Ihat appear in 
troni (and occasionally behind and around) ihe 
b^KgnDLind Bui there's been very little 
mention ol The background ilselT It you've 
grasped and understood a kiT □! the ^nlorrriQlJon 
□n de^iyriing and i:hatiging sprites. <) witt come 
in handy for destgnrng and changir^Q 
CHARACTERS Buififsi, Ttiereafeaome 
Important modes lo discuss. LeI'i starl al the 
beginning wuh tent mode When you switch on 
VOurCe4/C64C'Cl38or 
whalever, you gal a message 
Afitten in upper-case 
characierfl on a 40 cofumn by 
35 TOW screen. This rs lexi (or 
sometimes called business] 
mode Using the ROM 
character sel is the technical 
term toi an area ol memory 
thai contains Ihe byTes that 
make up all the avaiiatjie 
characters, which includas 
basic grapFiic symbols. 

The next step Is to press 
Commodore and SHfFT This 
turns your machine into kiwer 
case mode. Now yoj have 
less giapiiics but more 
readable lejit. W you want lo 
Slop people ^wJichmg 
between Ihe 2 modes, you 
can u&B PRtNT CHRS (6) to 
disabte and PRtWT CHRS (9) to enable the 
Commodore and shift keypress Tnai will slop 
Ihem messing up your display, and i9 an 
irT^porlant thing to remember when you deline 
vom uwn uhdrsciers, a task wo It look m m 
detail m the future 

Now. If you've seen Ihe ROM character eef 
yoii wilt see That all the characters are fixed aT 6 
pixels across by U pmefs down Like sprites, we 
h«ve the option ol hftlvrnq tho horl7onial 
iSiolutlon ta provide MULTICOLOUR MODI 
Vou can even display multicolour and 
monochrome fstnolecotoiir) chorflcten on the 
same f^'fipn Ihar^am mmfl re^tiictiona Ihan 
wit I ■ i«iit rTKJilh 

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EXTENDED BACKGROUND MODE TliislimKs 
^Du o 64 ctiaracteiB. but eacd can be displayea 
In a JrHereni ctiafacler colour and ona of 4 
background colours, whicii compares wllh 
mullooloui moUeS luad background cWojr plus 
two i«en mullpcotoura plus one ot aighi character 
colojrs 

Finally, you can re-datine Ihe characters so 
you ploi more than one si a lima 1o make up an 
Image For example, you can creale a cliaracler 
set that's Iwice as wicte and twice as *»qh as the 
buitt-in one, so to print a lelter 'A' you need to 
prmllDurcnaraclars in a square This IS Ifie Basic 
method you reed iD creale backgrountJs lor 
gamas, making up large 'pieces' ot the 
tacKaround from several ctiaraclets, and 
employir>g a simple method called blocks' helps 
save rtiemory ar^d time.. 




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"' Blocti on-scteeiv find liirns it inlo the OATA 

■ I 'I neeO to POKE into mertioiy I'll qivb you Ihe 
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■ iguin' Crowe lor sending Itie oiiginal piDOram. 

■ ;:h I've ctianoed slightly lo give a baiter idea Of 
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Yes, it's the time to pack 
away my turban (or 
another month. Next 
month I'll delve deeper 
(my favourite phrase 
again) into the mysteries 
of character sets. Beat 
the rush, post early, send 
your suggestions, 
questions or exompies ol 
your woric to: 
TheGamesGuru, 
Commodore Force, 
impact magazines,Ludlew, 
Shropshire SYS 1JW 
It just remains for me to 
say those immortal 
rds: DON'T DRINK 
- EAT TOO MUCH, 
'U FALL 



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[Hail ye! Cast down your bloody ax« and 
sil beside my (ire; eh, excuse the pong 
— that'll be the boiled Ore droppings 
I'm having for tea, help yourself. 
Actually I've been in quite a charitable 
■ mood all month. Only last week o 
' traveller passed this way in search of 
food and shelter and was sent away 
with a flea in his ear — normally he'd 
hove got a broadsword through the neck 
to go with It! Come to think of it I've 
not done a decent decapitation in ages. 
Come hither into my cave — I've 
something to show you~. no, come 
back». oh botheration! 



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say 'burnper' because a 
ivnole Ealch ol tellers weni 
astray recanlly. tlien all 
arrived iogeiher, so apologies 
111 advarica for any aelay in 
ienfling oul personal renlles - 
il tia5 Been a particularly IibcBc 
monlhbeie Anyway, down lo 
business . 

FitsKy I must mention Damian 
Slesie, ol Paignton, wiio has 
sent In, yet again, a whole 
aaicli ol solutions lo tielp out 
oiher readers. Thanks Damian, 
I appreciate it very much 
Sliona McConnall of Glasgow 
also sent me some solulions and a 
whole list of questions loo njmerous lo lisl here, Shona tells me she's been 
meaning fo write lor ages But neuer gol around to it until now She also 
mentions thai the column is a! least live pages loo slioll In Atalan she cani 
figure out how lo get ihe plank of wood lo Bridge Ihe chasm and in Blac* Kmgh! 
PI^shBca^'lgel'ldoftheguardOFllhe'OpeB'ld9e Well, lo son the chasm 
oul you should lusl DROP WOOD when you're 31 the chasm — n should fall In 
(he fight place The guard on ihe rope bridge can Be soned oul if you puH Ihe 
young sapling that's nearby This should spnng back over the biiOge and 
should break his neck lor you — lots of lovely gory stulf Ihera, 

Paul Fululioi) also ol Glasgow wnlss lo say that he cani find the lamp in 
Dfacula. Well Paul, it is as you leaf, in the rnaze Not to worry though, it isn't tat 
away. JuBl BO E.S.E.S.lo find Ihe cota thai you need and men go W 10 tind 



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n the Weak mid-winter, frosty wind did moan. 
Bash viras in his cavern, silting all alone. 
Suddenly hed ctacked iV Leaned Back and 
gave a groan, Bartjarians aren't so slupid. he'd 
written his own poemi 

Why should BatBanana have the feputaHon tot 
being all Biawn and no brain'' Alter all, \ sit here 
and solve one tncky adventure after another 
Suiely you need some inleHigence fo do that. Odtn 
knows — some ol the adventures we gel these 
days are dilfeult enough lo lai the brain ol even 
the shoites! ol planks Speaking ol brains, I |usi 
heard Tony Collins ol Guild soltware, one of Ihe 
mam sources ol C£H ndven lures, is going on a sw 
monlh computing couise, so his range of PD litles 
and Commodore catalogue, under licence, hove 
been lemporanly handed ovef to Jason McKensie 
of Binary Zone PD, until such lime as he is able 10 
cope with the vmrkkiad once mofe Things aren't 
quire selUed al the moment and I've not beard 
directly from eilhei Tony of Jason Most authors ol 
games in The Guild Catalogues have yet lo be 
Inlormed ol vihal's going on arid I doubt anything 
Mill Be settled oflicialiy unlit they've been contacted 
Watch thi6 space for funhei devetapments. 

■ C-FORCI Ns.ia BNOVEMBtB 1993 



RIVER SOFTWARE, 
£2.50 Cassette or Disk. 

mm the prolific pen of Jack Loclvefliy and Bogo' Belli iii>riws 
Oai/y JontsiticttBt knyanB Who playaii Li'ebcal. a prE?vir.ui5 
RiVBf Advenluf e wiij find the scenario quite laini I i^ir It wiis 
!.. J ,nd <in the first few days lo follow a shipwieck, and niL conliiiuei 
I! V sloi-y li'a enlrHmely tongue-in-cheek and, as wiih UfeCioal. a very 
«ntertaining and huntofous romp Be warned though, it's choc full ol Ihe 
most oxcfuciaimg puns and hoary old (okes Fo' eiampie, early on in ihe 
game you find yoursell afloat in a dinghy Attar a while a small aquio 
swims up to vou. EXAMINE SOUID — its not at all well GET SQUID — 
you take the poorly squid Shortly after this you come across me entrance 
10 a cave presided over by a Mermaid She refuses lo allow you lo enlet 
until you pay her E7 However, don't waste your lime searching for cash, 
IheiB isn'l any Just GIVE SQUID — the lulermaid takes Ihe squid, Alnghi 
she says Sick squid will do .. you can owe me Ihe other pound!' I knowi 
It IS a dreadful groaner — but I loved ill And there's more — lots morel 

The game's filled to eapaclly with all sods of creatures and people, all 
of whom Interaiit vary well. There are also some great features to help 
you out when you get stuck because, although this isn't a a particulafty 
dillicult adventure on the whole, you mil gel stuck — believe me. One 
that's suitable for Both the beginner and adventure veteran alike, 

DJL IS ekpertly written and. as with all Biver Adventures, Bug-free — it's 
a real |0y to play II' e actually been around for quite some lime now, but 
has lost nona ol its cliarm — no C64 adventurer should be without this little 
gem in their collecllon, II il makes old Bash chuckle then it'll have you in 
hystehcs, as well as giving many an enioyable hour ol lun and head 
scratching 




[fw lamp which, sTrangely, wasn't Ihere when yuu 
past earlier Paul also asks Is it liellei. wtien 
wnling yoji own adventure lo have Ihe inslrurlinns 
and sloryline on paper so the game slarts 
immedialely — as with Corya — or lo wnte the 
inlraduction wilhin Ihe game !il*6 in Gokten 
fggCup^ Pajl also asks where on eaiih he can 
gel his Inrslv Commodore repaiied or sen/iced 
With the game insiructions, I took at il in Iwo ways 
II cuts flown on costs to includo Ihem wilhih your 
game lape/disk but, and il is a big bul. ihose 
naughty pirates wojid lind life a lot more dillicull it 
Ihey di<fn't hRve the instiLictiOhs to go by. as when 
They're ori a separate sheet they rarefy get passed 
Oh As fof getting your computef repaired, I know 
wfieh mine goes wrong I happen lo know a very 
clevei fellow jusi nearby who's an absolutely 
wizard at inexpensive repairs ~ not surprisingly, 
he IS a wizard, and also very scared ol me. II you 
dofll know ol anyone like Ihal then I'd suggest yoj 
pop along lo your r^earesi Olxons, CLiirys of Tandy 
slere and ask IT^em lor help They've helped me in 
Iha past ih arranging ID send computers off lor 
repair at a reasonable standard c:harge — pop 
along and see whal Ihey suggest 

The neil letter wns from a 'budding Qasher' 
called Rlctinrd Canavan of Dublin who seems lo 
be getting m a dreadful mess in Higel's Revenge 
Never fear, help is hero' Whal you're looking for 
are the nightsights. The ftfleflikit is extremely 
imponsnl. Gel il, wear it, and go LIP and 
.. . FORCIBLY REMOVE 8Afi. EXAMINE 
MEDIKIT/BELT, EXAMINE RED 
, -^ auTTDN (stimulanti, EXAfUIINE 
■^ a GHEEN BUTTON (protein), 
'' \ PRESS BED BUTTON, BEND 
'■' \ BAR, REMOVE 
fc i f ful EDI KIT/BELT, THROW 
ly/ fill EDI KIT THROUGH 
" f WINDOW, 

— REMOVE 
. SUIT, 

■ THROW ■ 
' SUIT 




THROUGH WINDOW, N, GET SUIT, WEAR SUIT, 
GET MEDIKIT WEAR MED IKIT Yes you can leed 
the dog - It wants the bore. When you come 
across the door with Ihe wire you should EXAMINE 
DOOR. REMOVE WIRE OPEN DOOR When you 
lind Ihe RIgel Unilorm you can disguise yourself 
and Rave yourself a lol of g riel' 

Anthony Norton ol Bndlmgton, has been stuck 
on and of! for Ihroe years Irying lo complete one af 
my favourile 'Qolden Oldies', called Sorcerer □/ 
C^ymorgue Caslle by Scoll Adams Now that's 
what I call dedicalioni He's unable to gel through 
IhP Slone Door or get Ihe lin can from Hie 
baltlements I have 10 contess il'a years since I 
played Ihis one and c^inixit think which slone door 
IS causing Ihe problem I da know lliat sometimes 
Ihe parser can cause moie problems than Ihe 
gameilsPlf, sodolrvPUSH DOOR, PUIL DOOR, 
GO DOOR elc II you can get me a tetv more 
pointers to where exactly I he problem is, I'll try 
anfl help further To gel the can from the 
ban lament 5 you should GET BRICK, CAST 
DIZZY DEAN SPELL THROW BRICK, AT CAN. 
E, E, GET CAN, OPEfg CAN. WITH METAL, 
LOOK CAN 

Caroline Penrilh of Hardwicke wnles lo latt me 
Ihal she's stuck playing pad one ol that 
classic/one ol a kind adventure. Macb&th by 
Creative Sparks Now we are REALLV talking 
'Golden Oldies' So old in fact, I can hardly 
remember il, as I ptjvefl this one absolutely ages 
ago Carcline can get lo tlie beach but diDesn't 
know whal to do neil The only help I can give is 
to say that I remember sailing over to Ihe island ol 
lona (Think trial was the name] in a sieve with the 
aid ol a cat and a Fpverptl Thumb' Perhaps 



River Software, 44 
Hyde Place, Aylesham, 

L Canterbury, Kent 
CT33AL I 

Ch»qu** etc payable to 
Mr J A Uckerby. 



another kind reader can come forward with some 
tudher, more specilic help for this one' 

Olanne Gregory ol Blackford writes, 'I can't get 
into [he cave m Black KnigM — I've tried ringing 
the bell, reading The scroll ar-a burning Ihe 
Incense but still rant get pasi the evil lorce I'm 
also stuck at the cliasm and don't iinow where to 
use Ihe bible, hammer, chastity belt, mistleloe. 
arrow anfl horseshoe Well, Dianne, the (jnty 
thing you forgot to do at the cave was to wave the 
bible Once inside you should be carrying the 
horseshoe and you I! soon lind out whal to do with 
your olher items 

Stephen Hawker of Leicester writes to ask 
whal he should do attar tying Ihe anchor lo Ihe 
rope in Ara/an Tying the anchor To the rope 
creates a crude grappling iron, so go to the base 
of the dill and THROW ANCHOR'ROPE and you 
will soon lino that the game opens up for you 

Huyoul luerd ol Leicester tells me that he's 
stuck in Srairross by Infocom anfl would tike to 
know how to gel the Red Cryslat rod from Ihe 
nesting cage in Ihe Zoo, how lo get the Purple 
crystal rod Irom ihe conlrot room and how lo open 
the bubble hatch 

Throw the Tape Library at the nest and white 
the raiants look at you in terror, grab the red rod 
anfl the tape library 

Gelting the purple crystal rod Injm the control 
room IS a bii more compiicaled I assume you've 
ligureO oul the red and blue disks are Iransporter 
disks' Well the only way you can gel oul safely 
with the purple rod is to use Ihe Iransporter disks 
It you try to get back the way you came in you'll 
be killed oil for vir^lating a sacred shrine You 
lose one of the transporters Ihough. so do 

remember to use them to get a couple ol 

other rods first, le Ihe one Irom the trash 

in the room where Ihe cleaner mouse 
goes, and to get what you need Irom the 
Itoating sphere Only when you've cotlectea 
all Ihe rods should you go lo the bubble as 
It's a one way trip I'll give you a cryptic lip 
to help with Ihis A weapon can be found 
thai has somelhing hidden inside it II also 
has a limited amount of ammo Think of a blast 
of ammo when you are weightless and you'll 
get the picture Now you can go bubble 
hopping I 



Right, that's all we've 
room for this issue. 
I There'll be plenty mere 
letters next month, as I 
still have a lot to catch 
up with. Keep your 
swords sharp and your 
little brass lanterns 
bright until then. Oh, and 
if you see that Miles 
GuHery, tell him If he 
comes near my 
adventure section, I'll 



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Phewee — anoihef issue finally comes lo an 
sniJ. There's no resl lor ihe wicked. Ihough 
No sooner do we tmisti one episode of 
COMMODORE FORCE .Ifiar we're Inundated wilh 
sluH tor the nexl There's more Itps 10 corrpile, new 
ietlers lo answer and articles by Ifie buchel-loed 
No! Ihfll we re complaining — we llinve on the 
pressu'B. Unlike Itiose slackers al Nal West (are 
we sure aboul tnis — Edl 11 certainly is work work 
wor* lor ihe COMMODORE FORCE gang. 
Sometimes il seems Irtere's simply nol enrxigh 
days In llie month — February being a prime 
example, bui Ihal aside you can! really complain 
aOoul Ihe way our year Is arranged. January al Ihe 
stah, ChrisDnas al Uie end and a big lal summer in 
between. 

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